Title: Supplement to Punch, or the London Charivari, September 16, 1914
Author: Various
Release date: February 4, 2009 [eBook #28003]
Language: English
Credits: E-text prepared by Neville Allen, Malcolm Farmer, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
E-text prepared by Neville Allen, Malcolm Farmer,
and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
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Dædalus Bismarck (Political Parent of Wilhelm Icarus).
"My son, observe the middle path to fly,
And fear to sink too low, or rise too high.
Here the sun melts, there vapours damp your force,
Between the two extremes direct your course.
"Nor on the bear, nor on boötes gaze,
Nor on sword-arm'd orion's dangerous rays:
But follow me, thy guide, with watchful sight,
And, as I steer, direct thy cautious Flight.
Chorus (Everybody). "Everything in Order Everywhere! O! what a Surprise! Sold Again!"
"With ravished ears,
The Monarch hears,
Assumes the God,
Affects to nod,
and seems to shake the spheres!"
"Let me see if Wilhelm can
Be a little gentleman;
Let me see if he is able
To sit still for once at table!"
"But fidgety Will
He won't sit still."
Just like any bucking horse.
"Wilhelm! We are getting cross!"
Imperial "Manager-Actor" (who has cast himself for a leading part in "Un Voyage en Chine," sotto voce). "Um—Ha! With just a few additional touches here and there, I shall make a first-rate Emperor of China!"
Imperial Knight Templar (the German Emperor—to Saladin). "What!! The Christian Powers putting pressure upon You, my dear Friend!! Horrible! I can't think how People can do such things!"
"'Unter den Linden'—always at Home,
'Under the Lime-light' Wherever I Roam!"
Scene—On shore, during the visit of the British Fleet to Brest.
Mr. Punch (Photographer, suavely, to the Kaiser). "Just a leetle further back, please, Sir. Your shadow still rather interferes with the group."
Peace (attending the Inter-Parliamentary Congress at Berlin). "Everybody else seems to be my friend; why do you stand aloof?"
German Kaiser. "But haven't I always said that I was your friend?"
Peace. "Yes; but can't you do something to prove it?"
Wilhelm II. "What is this Distant Rumbling that I hear? Doubtless the Plaudits of my People!"