Vanish vile vengeance, vanish victory vain.

Why wish we warfare? Wherefore welcome won

Xerxes, Xantippus, Xavier, Xenophon?

Yield ye, young Yaghier yeomen, yield your yell.

Zimmermann’s, Zoroaster’s, Zeno’s zeal

Again attracts; arts against arms appeal.

All, all ambition’s aims, avaunt, away!

Et cætera, et cætera, et cætera.”