It was the night when we expected news from France,
  To say the war was over, and the fighting done;
The tidings that would make my heart rejoice at last,
  For foe as well as friend, and make the peoples one.

And as I moved amidst that silent multitude,
  Feeling the presence of a wild excitement there,
The world appeared to me so strange and wonderful -
  I almost heard a cuckoo in Trafalgar Square!