<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">The German in His Blindness</h1><h1 align="" class="head"><em>Tune</em>--" Greenland's icy mountains "</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">THE German in his blindness,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">He seeks his dug-out door</p><p class="line">As soon as our trench-mortars</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And guns begin to roar.</p><p class="line">He doesn't wear equipment,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">His sentries aren't about,</p><p class="line">And then up come the Seaforths</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And knock the Bosches out.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">What though their roomy dug-outs</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Go down for half a mile,</p><p class="line">Where every prospect pleases</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And only Bosche is vile;</p><p class="line">Yet no one of their inmates</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Has been known to survive,</p><p class="line">An intimate acquaintance</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">With our old Number 5.<a class="footnote" href="#mackintosh103" name="mackintosh103-link" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">1</a></p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">So all you little Bosches,</p><p class="line">That listen to my lay,</p><p class="line">Stick closely to your rifles,</p><p class="line">And clean them every day,</p><p class="line">And every night and morning</p><p class="line">Just fill yourselves with rum,</p><p class="line">For you'll need all your ration</p><p class="line">The day the Seaforths come.</p></div></body></html> · Great War