At snuff no Cornish sailorman would sneeze
For tea cucumber sandwiches a scone
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
One gathers rosebuds or grows old alone
To one sweet hour of bliss my memory clings
Were pots graffiti'd over by a slave
A daring baron pockets precious Mings
Thou homestead hillside woodland rock and cave
The wolf devours both sheep and shepherdess
Shallots and sharks'fins face the smould'ring log
While homeward thirsts to each quenched glass say yes
One misses cricket hearth and croaking frog
Do bank clerks rule their abacus by thumb
For Europe's glory while Fate's harpies strum