At five precisely out went La Marquise
Since Elgin left his nostrils in the stone
Old corned-beef's rusty armour spreads disease
The thumb- and finger-prints of Al Capone
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
Filching the lolly country thrift helped save
Proud death quite il-le-gi-ti-mate-ly stings
Till firemen come with hose-piped tidal wave
Platonic Greece was not so talentless
A bird-brain banquet melts bold Mistress Mog
While homeward thirsts to each quenched glass say yes
One misses cricket hearth and croaking frog
Where no one bothered how one warmed one's bum
A wise loaf always knows its humblest crumb