Everyone with the courage to defy philistinism and wear a moustache should therefore sign. I had soon collected a dozen moustaches, and then the 25th of October, when our moustaches would be a month old, was fixed as the day for a common moustache jubilee. Enough, that evening we had to have at least a few, and those who had none had to paint themselves one. Brave soldiers faced their country's foes In brown or black mustachios. So, in these times of martial glory, Moustaches are obligatory.
Philistines shirk the burden of bristle By shaving their faces as clean as a whistle.
We are not philistines, so we Can let our mustachios flourish free. Long life to every Christian Who bears his moustaches like a man. And may all philistines be damned For having moustaches banished and banned. To this doggerel glasses were clinked with great enthusiasm, and then somebody else got up. His principal would not give him a key, and so he had to be home by ten o'clock, or he would not be let in.