E. G. V. Knox

“ Where week by week our nobler sons
Have proved Britannia's no curmudgeon
By salvoes of applauding guns;
To save him toil without his landing,
To meet him with more warm advance,
And help to share that "understanding "
He has with Russia and with France. ”

“ He cried that Russia was the foe;
The German Press received the order
And answered meekly, "That is so;"
But when King William met the Tartar
His soul sustained another wrench,
He found the Slavs were even smarter
At entertainments than the French. ”