The acid tongue with gourmet's expertise
When masons clutch the breath we held on loan
The showman gargles fire and sword with ease
And loudly sang off-key without a tone
And yet 'twas he the beggar Fate just flings
Whose ocean still-born herrings madly brave
The learning linguist cameramaniac sings
Thou homestead hillside woodland rock and cave
The wolf devours both sheep and shepherdess
In indian summers Englishmen drink grog
From cool Parnassus down to wild Loch Ness
One misses cricket hearth and croaking frog
The Taj Mahal has trinkets spice and gum
In cognac brandy is Bacardi rum?