The motor cars yellow eyed through yellow fog

the  gassed lungs and amputtees crowd for soup

Officers selling bootlaces, matches

the pregnant munitions worker stained

Yellow by toluene

the Silvertown unemployed shell fillers

and the scullery maids let go,  to bob

and jitterbug in to mother's ruin

on the rebound from sweethearts lost 

to sight on Somme or Passchendaele

the lost provinces regain their losses

as the white bleeds into the red

Patriarch blesses and is abolished

as the tiger stalks Versailles, gnaws

his tobacco- stained taches signs the Armistice as the diamonds sparkle Izvestia  mines.