MY SAY: HE IS THE VERY MODEL OF A MAJOR U.S. GENERAL WITH APOLOGIES TO GILBERT AND SULLIVAN

He is  the very model of a major U.S. General
With  information vegetable, animal, and mineral
He know the royals of England, and can quote fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical

He’s very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
And understands equations, both the simple and quadratical

On issues of religion he is really quite Canonical

With Predilections for the issues quite Koranical

For his military knowledge, though he’s plucky and adventury
Has only been around for  the beginning of the century

In fact, he knows what is meant by “mamelon” and “ravelin”

And he can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties and surprises he’s more wary at
But he knows precisely what is meant by  “commissariat”

He knows what progress has been made in  modern gunnery
And he knows more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
He has  a smattering of elemental strategy and surge,

But couldn’t fight that elemental urge

They say in distant ports there’s nothing like a Broad, Well

That certain tumescence he couldn’t quell

But he is the very model of a patriotic general

He is a soldier at heart and will tell all

On Hillary’s sword he must not fall

 

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