Just for a handful of silver he
sold us!
Just for a ribband to tether his
goat!
Just for a crook-fingered hand to
uphold us!
Just for the change from a
five-shilling note!
Just for the the reasons he once
had foretold us!
Just for a ride on the thousand-year
boat!
Just for a chance for our fears to
unfold us!
Just for relief from a mild strep
throat!
Just for a spyglass through which
to behold us!
Just to be neither a Slovene nor
Croat!
Just to be false to the times he
extolled us!
Just for a very warm astrakhan
coat!
