When one with t'other straightaway agrees
His exaltation shocked both youth and crone
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
And loudly sang off-key without a tone
How it suprised us pale grey underlings
That metred rhyme alone can souls enslave
An icicle of frozen marrow pings
The nicest kids for strickiest toffees crave
Platonic Greece was not so talentless
Shallots and sharks'fins face the smould'ring log
The colonel's still escutcheoned in undress
One misses cricket hearth and croaking frog
Though bretzels take the dols from board-room drum
They're kings we're mammal-cousins hi ho hum