(Written with the hope that the socialists might yet dethrone Kaiser and Czar.) Here's to the mice that scare the lions, Creeping into their cages. Here's to the fairy mice that bite The elephants fat and wise: Hidden in the hay-pile while the elephant thunder rages. Here's to the scurrying, timid mice Through whom the proud cause dies. Here's to the seeming accident When all is planned and working, All the flywheels turning, Not a vassal shirking. Here's to the hidden tunneling thing That brings the mountain's groans. Here's to the midnight scamps that gnaw, Gnawing away the thrones. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DEVIL'S WALK [ON EARTH] by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE LILIES: 15 by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) THE TWICKENHAM AIR by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB FIRST NEWS FROM VILLAFRANCA by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE CLAIM by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |