When one with t'other straightaway agrees
The answer is they could be twins full-grown
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
One gathers rosebuds or grows old alone
And yet 'twas he the beggar Fate just flings
Filching the lolly country thrift helped save
Th'outrageous Thames a troubled arrow slings
For burning bushes never fish forgave
Platonic Greece was not so talentless
And starve the sniveling baby like a dog
Socrates watched his hemlock effervesce
Lobsters for sale must be our apologue
Where no one bothered how one warmed one's bum
They're kings we're mammal-cousins hi ho hum