So they, out there, might still be warm and dry.

II.

C. Have you observed the alien in our midst,

How strangely numerous he seems to-day,

Swarming like migrant swallows from the East?

D. I take it they would fain elude the net

Spread by Conscription's hands to haul them in.

All day they lurk in cover Houndsditch way,

Dodging the copper, and emerge at night

To snatch a breath of Occidental air