The marble tomb gapes wide with jangling keys
His nasal ecstasy beats best Cologne
The showman gargles fire and sword with ease
That suede ferments is not at all well known
And yet 'twas he the beggar Fate just flings
Filching the lolly country thrift helped save
Such merchandise a melancholy brings
Thou homestead hillside woodland rock and cave
The genealogist with field and fess
Shallots and sharks'fins face the smould'ring log
From cool Parnassus down to wild Loch Ness
Bard I adore your endless monologue
Do bank clerks rule their abacus by thumb
And lessors' dates have all too short a sum