At snuff no Cornish sailorman would sneeze
Licks round carved marble chops on snails full-blown
Old corned-beef's rusty armour spreads disease
Which neither time nor tide can long postpone
And yet 'twas he the beggar Fate just flings
Signalling gauchos very rarely shave
He's gone to London how the echo rings
For burning bushes never fish forgave
The wolf devours both sheep and shepherdess
A bird-brain banquet melts bold Mistress Mog
Socrates watched his hemlock effervesce
Whiskey will always wake an Irish bog
On fish-slab whale nor seal has never swum
In cognac brandy is Bacardi rum?