How

can I

that girl

standing there,

My attention

fix

On Roman or

on Russian

Or on

Spanish

politics?

Yet here's a

travelled

man

that knows

What he

talks about,

And there's

a politician

That has

read and

thought,

And maybe

what they

say is true

Of war

and war's

alarms,

But O

that I were

young

again

And held

her

in my

arms!