At five precisely out went La Marquise
Since Elgin left his nostrils in the stone
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
One gathers rosebuds or grows old alone
The roundabout eats profits made on swings
When flame a form to wrath ancestral gave
An icicle of frozen marrow pings
The nicest kids for strickiest toffees crave
Poetic licence needs no strain or stress
Shallots and sharks'fins face the smould'ring log
Poor Yorick comes to bury not address
Southern baroque's seductive dialogue
Ventriloquists be blowed you strike me dumb
The bell tolls fee-less fi-less fo-less fum