Our Bagdad force fell in a rut
At Ctesiphon; Turks made things hum.
We found that we had got to Kut,
Whilst Russians found a way to Kum!
Our men know not the word "defeat,"
They'll make it clear on Tigris plain
That, Russian-like, when they retreat,
'Tis but to cut and come again.
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