From playboy Chance the nymph no longer flees
His exaltation shocked both youth and crone
His toga rumpled high above his knees
And empty cages show life's bird has flown
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
Signalling gauchos very rarely shave
In salads all chew grubs before they've wings
To break a rule Britannia's might might waive
Staunch pilgrims longest journeys can't depress
Shallots and sharks'fins face the smould'ring log
While homeward thirsts to each quenched glass say yes
One misses cricket hearth and croaking frog
The Taj Mahal has trinkets spice and gum
Soliloquies predict great things old chum