This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong + 

This is no case of petty right or wrong + 

That politicians or philosophers + 

Can judge. I hate not Germans, nor grow hot + 

With love of Englishmen, to please newspapers. + 

Beside my hate for one fat patriot + 

My hatred of the Kaiser is love true:⁠— + 

A kind of god he is, banging a gong. + 

But I have not to choose between the two, + 

Or between justice and injustice. Dinned + 

With war and argument I read no more + 

Than in the storm smoking along the wind + 

Athwart the wood. Two witches’ cauldrons roar. + 

From one the weather shall rise clear and gay; + 

Out of the other an England beautiful + 

And like her mother that died yesterday. + 

Little I know or care if, being dull, + 

I shall miss something that historians + 

Can rake out of the ashes when perchance + 

The phoenix broods serene above their ken. + 

But with the best and meanest Englishmen + 

I am one in crying, God save England, lest + 

We lose what never slaves and cattle blessed. + 

The ages made her that made us from the dust: + 

She is all we know and live by, and we trust + 

She is good and must endure, loving her so: + 

And as we love ourselves we hate her foe. + 