The Bab Ballads, with Which Are Included Songs of a Savoyard

by W. S. Gilbert

She is England—with improvements,

Which we dutifully offer to our mother-land!

Our city we have beautified—we've done it willy-nilly—

And all that isn't Belgrave Square is Strand and Piccadilly.

(They haven't any slummeries in England.)

We have solved the labour question with discrimination polished,

So poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished—

(They are going to abolish it in England.)

The Chamberlain our native stage has purged, beyond a question,