The marble tomb gapes wide with jangling keys
His exaltation shocked both youth and crone
Her native chauffeur waited in the breeze
With cherry-pips his cottage floor is sown
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
Were pots graffiti'd over by a slave
The learning linguist cameramaniac sings
For burning bushes never fish forgave
The genealogist with field and fess
With gravity at gravity's great cog
From cool Parnassus down to wild Loch Ness
With breaking voice across the Alps they slog
Do bank clerks rule their abacus by thumb
They're kings we're mammal-cousins hi ho hum