Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3828/To a Super-Patriot
Commemorate, ye gods, the noble mind Of Brown (A. J.), a youth of classic parts, Whose soul was ever faultlessly inclined To music, verse, and all the gracious arts; At things of taste, in fact, Augustus John Was always, and is yet, a perfect don.
But lately I have fathomed deeps unknown Before in my incomparable friend; No mere artistic trifler, he has shown A patriot heart of high heroic trend,And showered sacrifice with fearless hand Upon the altar of his Motherland.
I haled him to a "music" hall to hear The Great Recruiting Song, and watched him wince And writhe throughout, as though his end were near; But now I learn that, every evening since, Brown has been there, in England's sacred cause, To greet that patriot song with loud applause!