The marble tomb gapes wide with jangling keys
For tea cucumber sandwiches a scone
The Turks said just take anything you please
And empty cages show life's bird has flown
They both are right not untamed mutterings
Signalling gauchos very rarely shave
Proud death quite il-le-gi-ti-mate-ly stings
Victorious worms grind all into the grave
The genealogist with field and fess
One tongue will do to keep the verse agog
From cool Parnassus down to wild Loch Ness
Their sculptors did our best our hulks the clog
With marble souvenirs then fill a slum
Soliloquies predict great things old chum