"When Britain really ruled the waves,
(in good Queen Bess's time)
The House of Peers made no pretence
To intellectual eminence
Or scholarship sublime
Yet Britain won her proudest boys
In good Queen Bess's glorious days!
"When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte,
As every child can tell,
The House of Peers, throughout the war,
Did nothing in particular
And did it very well,
Yet Britain set the world abiaze
In good King George's glorious days!"
(From "lolanthe")
When Teddy's big stick ruled the waves
(In Bill McKinley's time)
The noble congress did not itch
To interfere in matters which
It did not understand
And yet we won Manila Bay
In Bill McKinley's glorious day.
When stocks were going up and up,
As every child can tell,
Calvin the oracular
Did nothing in particular
And did it very well,
Yet dollars set the world ablaze
In cool old Calvin's glorious days.
But now the government applies
Its intellectual paw
To labor, stocks, and currency
And in our foreign policy
"Good neighbor" is the law
Yet who can say if this will pay
As in the Grand Old Party's day.
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