BREST-BUCHAREST-VERSAILLES.

Oh, those were palmy days at Brest!

You had no sort of scruples then;

You knelt at ease on Russia's chest,

Dipped in her blood your iron pen,

Dictated terms the most abhorrent

And made her sign her own death-warrant.

At Bucharest 'twas much the same:

You had Roumania under heel;