The acid tongue with gourmet's expertise
The bull's horns ought to dry it like a bone
He bent right down and well what did he seize
One gathers rosebuds or grows old alone
They both are right not untamed mutterings
Filching the lolly country thrift helped save
Th'outrageous Thames a troubled arrow slings
Thou homestead hillside woodland rock and cave
Staunch pilgrims longest journeys can't depress
Shallots and sharks'fins face the smould'ring log
The colonel's still escutcheoned in undress
Southern baroque's seductive dialogue
Poor reader smile before your lips go numb
They're kings we're mammal-cousins hi ho hum