The acid tongue with gourmet's expertise
For tea cucumber sandwiches a scone
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
The thumb- and finger-prints of Al Capone
Oh how oh how he hates such pilferings
Whose ocean still-born herrings madly brave
A daring baron pockets precious Mings
For burning bushes never fish forgave
The fasting fakir doesn't smell the less
Or grinning like a pale-faced golliwog
While homeward thirsts to each quenched glass say yes
Their sculptors did our best our hulks the clog
Poor reader smile before your lips go numb
The best of all things to an end must come