The Spike or Victoria College Review Capping programme 1919
[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!