The acid tongue with gourmet's expertise
When masons clutch the breath we held on loan
Forms shadowy with indecision wheeze
And loudly sang off-key without a tone
They both are right not untamed mutterings
The North Wind Bites into his architrave
Th'outrageous Thames a troubled arrow slings
Till firemen come with hose-piped tidal wave
The genealogist with field and fess
One tongue will do to keep the verse agog
From cool Parnassus down to wild Loch Ness
Southern baroque's seductive dialogue
On fish-slab whale nor seal has never swum
Soliloquies predict great things old chum