Shows his pyjamas to a startled world,

And shivers in the foremost of our van

The while our H.E. shells are upwards hurled.

You vanish, not ten centimes worth the worse

For all our noise, so far as we can tell;

The blest "Stand easy" comes; with many a curse

We hurry to the tents named after Bell.[1]

In two brief hours we must arise and shine!

O willow-waly! Would I were at home

Where leisurely I breakfasted at nine