The first one with conviction penned: <br />“This conflict in seven weeks will end.” <br /> <br />Another, later in the war, <br />Gave Germany just one month more. <br /> <br />Since then I’ve read predictions free – <br />They dribble in unceasingly. <br /> <br />All wrong. And still the critics say <br />When it will finish to the day. <br /> <br />Hughes should get cash in mighty sacks <br />From his proposed War Prophets Tax.<br /><br />Edward George Dyson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-inequitable-impost/
