The acid tongue with gourmet's expertise
When masons clutch the breath we held on loan
He bent right down and well what did he seize
One gathers rosebuds or grows old alone
The frisian Isles my friends are cherised things
Filching the lolly country thrift helped save
The fertile mother changelings drops like kings
Etruscan words which Greece and Rome engrave
The wolf devours both sheep and shepherdess
Shallots and sharks'fins face the smould'ring log
Socrates watched his hemlock effervesce
Whiskey will always wake an Irish bog
The Taj Mahal has trinkets spice and gum
yet from the City's pie pulled not one plum