Your swindles lie stark in the broad sunshine,

The guests whom you sheared ere you let them go

Have made all the world your extortion know!

Joy to the moderate hosts of France!

Custom waits upon wise finance;

Joy to your honest Yankee men!

Their guests are all travelling back again.

There they go—the shaved ones see,

Who are grumbling at British Roguery.

Take the bill—the items pare,