He bent right down to pick up his valise
Through snobbish growing round her hemline zone
Old corned-beef's rusty armour spreads disease
One gathers rosebuds or grows old alone
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
With sombre thoughts they grimly line the nave
The learning linguist cameramaniac sings
Till firemen come with hose-piped tidal wave
The peasants's skirts on rainy days she'd tress
What things we did we went the whole darned hog
And played their mountain croquet jungle chess
One misses cricket hearth and croaking frog
Where no one bothered how one warmed one's bum
In cognac brandy is Bacardi rum?