The Spike or Victoria College Review Capping programme 1919
Imperfect Peace
Imperfect Peace.
"And the earth was filled with violence."
Three doughty moderns here you see—
Japhetrow's Peace Society—
Embarked as Henry Ford might be—
Our Ark a model Tin-lizzie! (Honk! Honk!)
Shem: The Bolsheviks were out to smash!Ham: The horrible Hun to biff and bash!
Japh: I'll keep an eye upon the cash!
All: Japhetrow's Peace Society.
Japh.: My father sailed the "Mayflower" Tub,
Ham: His great grandfather kept a Pub;
Shem:
His earlier forebears used the Club
To keep the peace 'f antiquity.
Japh.:
Ah, man, they were pugnacious men!
They taught Japhetrow that the pen
Would never keep (while men were men)
The world safe for Democracy!
Ham:
The war is over! Now I'll gorge
Myself in spoil till you may forge
From Teuton Ham a Tab-loid George!
All: Behold rewarded's piety!Ham:
My resolution's undestroyed,
Intentions all quite unalloyed,—
Yet I've inside an aching void
Unfilled by this society!