Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Commerce, War, Pollution, Sanitation, Public Health, Exhibitions, Nationalism, Cultural Geography, Engineering, Agriculture

    Questioning the costly 'war-preparations' (against the United States), emphasises the amount of work there is to do in Britain, including the need to 'hold a position in our Exhibition', as well as the 'draining' of London, the construction of the Thames Embankment, the purification of the Thames, and the 'utilisation of sewage'.