From playboy Chance the nymph no longer flees
Since Elgin left his nostrils in the stone
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The thumb- and finger-prints of Al Capone
Oh how oh how he hates such pilferings
When flame a form to wrath ancestral gave
Such merchandise a melancholy brings
The nicest kids for strickiest toffees crave
Platonic Greece was not so talentless
Or grinning like a pale-faced golliwog
Socrates watched his hemlock effervesce
Southern baroque's seductive dialogue
On fish-slab whale nor seal has never swum
They're kings we're mammal-cousins hi ho hum