English poem
A Day at Versailles
by Thomas Crane (1631–1714)
At Versailles, as perhaps you have heard, Countless pictures of fights Form the chief of the sights: Could so many great battles have ever occurred?
No wonder our children the gardens preferred:— For the fountains were really so pretty a sight, That Bertie declared—and I think he was right— It was better to play Like the fountains all day, Than such terrible battles to fight.