The wild horse champs the Parthenon's top frieze
His exaltation shocked both youth and crone
The showman gargles fire and sword with ease
One gathers rosebuds or grows old alone
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
When flame a form to wrath ancestral gave
Such merchandise a melancholy brings
Etruscan words which Greece and Rome engrave
Staunch pilgrims longest journeys can't depress
A bird-brain banquet melts bold Mistress Mog
From cool Parnassus down to wild Loch Ness
With breaking voice across the Alps they slog
Ventriloquists be blowed you strike me dumb
And lessors' dates have all too short a sum