Our lachrytnal passages are Replete with a saline suffasion, To know that our ally the Czar And Pere Felix "shook hands with effusion."
"Twill give Kaiser Billy a shock, And set Johnny Bull in commotion, To hear how the Bear and the Cock "Embraced in the midst of emotion Let Jacobins turn in their sod, 'To see neath the tricolour'd' banner A despot anointed of God Throw himself on the breast of a tanner But now that an Emperor deems A President man and a brother, A plain coat of black hardly seems coming, let's make him another OF bien-de-roi rich with gold lace, Or if we are dubious whether For Felix would be out of place, Why, clothe him in best Russia leather
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.