From playboy Chance the nymph no longer flees
For tea cucumber sandwiches a scone
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
And empty cages show life's bird has flown
And yet 'twas he the beggar Fate just flings
Signalling gauchos very rarely shave
Such merchandise a melancholy brings
For burning bushes never fish forgave
The wolf devours both sheep and shepherdess
A bird-brain banquet melts bold Mistress Mog
The country lane just thrives on farmyard mess
With breaking voice across the Alps they slog
On fish-slab whale nor seal has never swum
A wise loaf always knows its humblest crumb