Where fickle Fate dispenses weal or woe

Respectively assigned to friend and foe;

Where Cornucopia meekly comes to heel

Under instructions from Sir JOHN FIELD BEALE.

Let others in Icarian feats engage

With the ingenious aid of HANDLEY PAGE;

Haste to discover all that may be known

About the situation in Cologne;

Or, like Sir WILLIAM BEVERIDGE, to appease

The clamourings of esurient Viennese—