Från fronten i väster september-november 1914

727 Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should, We have had no end of a lesson: it will do us no end of good. It was our fault, and our very great fault, and not the judgment of Heaven. We made an Army in our own image, on an Island nine by seven, Which faithfully mirrored its makers’ ideals, equip- ment, and mental attitude— And so we got our lesson: and we ought to accept it with gratitude. We have spent two hundred million pounds to prove the fact once more, That horses are quicker than men afoot, since two and two make four: And horses have four legs, and men have two legs, and two into four goes twice, And nothing over except our lesson—and very cheap at the price. It was our fault, and our very great fault—and now we must turn it to use; We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse! So the more we Work and the less we talk the better results we shall get— We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet! Om den engelska bildningen och lärdomen be- skyller »den tyska militarismen» för att umgås med