The Latest School

By Gilbert Keith Chesterton

See the flying French depart

Like the bees of Bonaparte,

Swarming up with a most venomous vitality.

Over Baden and Bavaria,

And Brighton and Bulgaria,

Thus violating Belgian neutrality.

And the injured Prussian may

Not unreasonably say

"Why, it cannot be so small a nationality

Since Brixton and Batavia,

Bolivia and Belgravia,

Are bursting with the Belgian neutrality."

By pure Alliteration

You may trace this curious nation,

And respect this somewhat scattered Principality;

When you see a B in Both

You may take your Bible oath

You are violating Belgian neutrality.

(French airmen have been flying over Baden and

Bavaria, violating Belgian neutrality

--Stated on German authority in the Westminster Gazette)