No Printed Word, Nor Spoken Plea Can

Teach Us Delight In Simple Things, And Mirth That Has No Bitter Springs.

Borrow Trouble For Yourself, If That's Your Nature, But Don't Lend It To Your Neighbours.

And That Is Called Paying The Dane-geld; But We've Proved It Again And Again, That If Once You Have Paid Him The Dane-geld You Never Get Rid Of The Dane.

When The Cambrian Measures Were Forming, They Promised Perpetual Peace. They Swore, If We Gave Them Our Weapons, That The Wars Of The Tribes Would Cease. But When We Disarmed They Sold Us, And Delivered Us, Bound, To Our Foe, And The Gods Of The Copybook Headings Said: "stick To The Devil You Know."

God Help Us For We Knew The Worst Too Young.