The Heavy Dragoon.

If you want a receipt for that popular mystery     Known to the world as a Heavy Dragoon,     Take all the remarkable people in history,     Rattle them off to a popular tune!     The pluck of Lord Nelson on board of the Victory     Genius of Bismarck devising a plan;     The humor of Fielding (which sounds contradictory)     Coolness of Paget about to trepan     The grace of Mozart, that unparalleled musico     Wit of Macaulay, who wrote of Queen Anne     The pathos of Paddy, as rendered by Boucicault     Style of the Bishop of Sodor and Man     The dash of a D'Orsay, divested of quackery     Narrative powers of Dickens and Thackeray     Victor Emmanuel peak-haunting Peveril     Thomas Aquinas, and Doctor Sacheverell     Tupper and Tennyson Daniel Defoe     Anthony Trollope and Mister Guizot!     Take of these elements all that are fusible,     Melt them all down in a pipkin or crucible,     Set them to simmer and take off the scum,     And a Heavy Dragoon is the residuum!     If you want a receipt for this soldierlike paragon,     Get at the wealth of the Czar (if you can)     The family pride of a Spaniard from Arragon     Force of Mephisto pronouncing a ban     A smack of Lord Waterford, reckless and rollicky     Swagger of Roderick, heading his clan     The keen penetration of Paddington Pollaky     Grace of an Odalisque on a divan     The genius strategic of Csar or Hannibal     Skill of Lord Wolseley in thrashing a cannibal     Flavor of Hamlet the Stranger, a touch of him     Little of Manfred, (but not very much of him)     Beadle of Burlington Richardson's show;     Mr. Micawber and Madame Tussaud!     Take of these elements all that are fusible,     Melt them all down in a pipkin or crucible,     Set them to simmer and take off the scum,     And a Heavy Dragoon is the residuum!