In none of these things Fortune waits for me,

Nor Knighthood cheap, nor unctuous O.B.E.

Ah, not for me to note with facile pen

Successive stages of the L. of N.

With calorimetric and statistic arts

Administer the prog of Foreign Parts,

Or, eager not to do the thing by halves,

To reconcile the Czechs and Jugo-Slavs—

I will, resigning honours, kudos, pelf,

Administer hot cocoa to myself;