From playboy Chance the nymph no longer flees
For tea cucumber sandwiches a scone
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
One gathers rosebuds or grows old alone
The frisian Isles my friends are cherised things
Nought can the mouse's timid nibbling stave
Proud death quite il-le-gi-ti-mate-ly stings
The nicest kids for strickiest toffees crave
Staunch pilgrims longest journeys can't depress
And starve the sniveling baby like a dog
From cool Parnassus down to wild Loch Ness
Their sculptors did our best our hulks the clog
And let you off from your opinions glum
yet from the City's pie pulled not one plum