"And much of the work you deem sublime Is like the grain of pink-hued lime Which once was a coral insect's shell, But now is a microscopic cell, Entombed with countless billions more In a lonely reef on an unknown shore!"

The Americans, he knew, had more money than they knew what to do withas Europeans universally think, only, personally, I find that I was overlooked in the distributionand if they would lend the Allies some of their spare billions, Germany was surely beaten.