The marble tomb gapes wide with jangling keys
His exaltation shocked both youth and crone
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
The thumb- and finger-prints of Al Capone
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
Nought can the mouse's timid nibbling stave
Proud death quite il-le-gi-ti-mate-ly stings
Thou homestead hillside woodland rock and cave
Emboggled minds may puff and blow and guess
A piercint wit would sprightliest horses flog
The colonel's still escutcheoned in undress
We'll suffocate before the epilogue
Poor reader smile before your lips go numb
Soliloquies predict great things old chum