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[Illustration: "WHAT MAKES YOUR HUSBAND SO CROSS THESE TIMES?"
"HE KEEPS FRETTING DREADFUL BECAUSE HE'S OVER THE AGE AND SO HE CAN'T BE A
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR."]
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THE POTSDAM ALTRUIST.
[_The Frankfurter Zeitung_ protests against the idea that "the KAISER
in Germany's gravest times allows anxiety about himself or his dynasty
to have access to his thoughts."]
Among the penalties imposed on Kings
Who govern absolutely by divine right,
I am no more affected by the things
That Socialists and other dirty swine write
Than when a pin is thrust
Into a pachyderm's indifferent crust.
But now I deign to answer, even I,
The vilest yet of these revolting sallies,
Where they allege that when our German sky
Rocks to the air of "_Deutschland ueber alles_,"
"_Und Ich,_" I add (aside),
"_Ich ueber Deutschland!_" There the blighters lied.
I'm not like that. I never use the first
Personal pronoun, like the Monarch LOUIS,
Who said (in French--a tongue I deem accurst),
"_L'etat, c'est moi.
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