[I have based the following upon the page image and a rough transcription in the Internet Archive’s online version of a copy in the University of Toronto Library. — George P. Landow] THE DELHI DURBAR. (Air — Bonny Dundee.)
To the Chiefs and the Princes 'twas CURZON who spoke,
"Ere this show is well over we're like to be broke;
But the date has been fixed, so from near and from far
We must up and away to the Delhi Durbar.
So fill up the howdah and fling the rupee;
Give your turbans a toss for your Emp'ror and me:
With Lord K. as a comet and me as the star
There’ll be lots of good light at the Delhi Durbar!"
He has climbed to his seat, and he looks mighty bold
In the flame of his scarlet, the gleam of his gold.
And it 's Ho! for our RAJ, and it 's Pooh for the CZAR,
When Lord CURZON sets out for the Delhi Durbar.
There's the thunder of guns, there 's a roar of applause,
There's the glint of dark eyes flashing brightly through gauze;
And there 's many a Press-man inditing his par
To. the fame of Lord C. and the Delhi Durbar.
Oh, the RAJAH speaks up, and it's "Bring me my sacks:
I’ve the money to spend, and I'11 spend it in lakhs.
Let my palace bide empty, my gates stand ajar,
For I'm off, I and mine, to the Delhi Durbar."
And the Ryot takes stock of his fields and his rice;
He has sorted his savings and counted the price:
'Tis a year of no rent lor the grim Zemindar
When the Ryot looks in at the Delhi Durbar.
Then up with the standard and let it fly free,
And salute it, salute it, with thirty times three!
And shout, each civilian, and soldier, and tar,
With the rest of our world, for the Delhi Durbar!
"So fill up the howdah and fling the rupee;
Give your turbans a toss for your Emp'ror and me:
With Lord K. as a comet and me as the star
There’ll be lots of good light at the Delhi Durbar!"
"Tis."
Bibliography
Tis. “The Delhi Durbar.” Punch. (7 January 1903): 4. Internet Archive’s online version of a copy in the University of Toronto Library. Web. 5 June 2017.
Last modified 5 June 2017