With chosen spirits such as those your talk need never end
If you are worthy of your spurs and count a horse your friend.
Just ask them "Did you clip trace-high?" or "Did you chaff your hay?"
Or boast about the gee you ride, and they'll have lots to say.
Cut out the talk of battle's din, of whizz-bangs and of crumps,
Of bombs and gas and hand-grenades, of mines and blazing dumps;
If you would wake their sympathy and warm their hearts indeed
Describe a Squadron watering, and then the fuss at "Feed!"
That lively bustle has a charm to wake a mummy's ear
Who, ere the Pyramids were planned, was mustered charioteer;
And many a horseman's spirit thrills by Lethe's drowsy brink
When in a strange, familiar dream his Troop comes down to drink!
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From "The Story of the Haldane Missions":--
"The Kaiser laughingly remarked that he had better have the high
chair (in which the Kaiser usually sat at his council meetings).
He also gave Lord Haldane an Imperial cigar.... While discussing
the naval question, the Kaiser took a copy of the new Naval Bill
out of his pocket and handed it to Lord Haldane, who transferred
it to his pocket without looking at it.
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