The wild horse champs the Parthenon's top frieze
When masons clutch the breath we held on loan
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
And empty cages show life's bird has flown
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
When flame a form to wrath ancestral gave
Th'outrageous Thames a troubled arrow slings
The nicest kids for strickiest toffees crave
The peasants's skirts on rainy days she'd tress
Or grinning like a pale-faced golliwog
The colonel's still escutcheoned in undress
Whiskey will always wake an Irish bog
Where no one bothered how one warmed one's bum
In cognac brandy is Bacardi rum?