A Trifle for Trafalgar Day
(with acknowledgements to G. K. Chesterton) Cabot . . . challenge • • opportunity . . . courage" — the Prime Minister.
Who's the Dover-based day tripper Heir to, Heath? The captain of the close-rigged clipper? , is he, Heath? (While for plump young brokers preening „Du the day that Britain joins Kigging has another meaning „. And a ' clipper ' is for coins . . .) Was the cry of Drake and Raleigh, Tacked into the tempest's teeth, Ah, thank God, at last — there's Calais!" Was it Heath?
8elgian bureaucrats in boardrooms Differ, Heath prom midshipmites in Nelson's wardrooms, Don't they, Heath? 'M would the Victory quite suit your ,,..Grand adventures where they range, when the Wave is of the Future And the Winds are those of Change? Though Industry is advantageous Ask Sir Alec, ask Sir Keith, Ftre its Captains so Courageous? Are they, Heath? You'll be meeting loyal comrades, Won't you, Heath? —It's years since Germans came on Ain't it, Heath? [bomb-raids, The red fool-fury of the Seine now Has not raged since Sixty-eight. In Rome for one whole British reign now Mere millions cheer the Total State. While in the countries of our cousins, Bowed our lousy laws beneath, Revolutions come in dozens, Don't they, Heath?
Nowadays what does 'The Horn' Conjure, Heath? Lorry-loads of Danish porn, Trader Heath? Are economic blizzards raving Where the frozen assets clot Conditions that you'll all be braving Just like Frobisher or Scott. . ? No, talk of profit and debenture Fix Liege with loans from Leith, But the Spirit of Adventure . . . Chuck it, Heath! Ted Pauher
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