Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3825/The White Man's Burden
Who ran to watch how Nancy fell
Beneath a storm of shot and shell,
And, when she didn't, felt unwell?
The Kaiser.
Who stimulates his gentle sons
To ape the manners of the Huns?
Who doesn't feed the Bear with buns?
The Kaiser.
Who circulates ingenious glosses
To minimize his army's losses,
And scatters showers of Iron Crosses?
The Kaiser.
Who suffers agonizing pains
When stern necessity constrains
The bashing-in of Gothic fanes?
The Kaiser.
Who has for several weeks of late
Omitted to communicate
With any foreign potentate?
The Kaiser.
Who in a cage of steel, we're told,
The tides of war about him rolled,
Watches the scroll of Fate unfold?
The Kaiser.