With fifty different uniforms for every single day;

To make the nations shudder with the semblance of a frown,

And, if BISMARCKS should oppose you, just to order them away?

With your actions autocratic,

And your poses so dramatic;

Yours the honour and the glory, while the country pays the bill,

With your shouting sempiternal,

And your Grandmamma a Colonel,

And the power—which is best of all—to shoot your birds by will.

Then the joy of gallopading with a helmet and a sword,