What if a War's meanwhile occurred

And talk of a humbling Peace been heard?

Treaties are meant to be torn in two

And wars are made to be fought anew.

Hoch! for the Tag, by land and main,

When the Monarchy comes to its own again.

Surely tho wind of it, faint but sweet,

The Old Man sniffed in his Dutch retreat;

Surely it gave his pulse a jog

As he went for his thirteen thousandth log,