From playboy Chance the nymph no longer flees
For tea cucumber sandwiches a scone
The understanding critic firstly sees
One gathers rosebuds or grows old alone
The roundabout eats profits made on swings
That metred rhyme alone can souls enslave
The learning linguist cameramaniac sings
Thou homestead hillside woodland rock and cave
The genealogist with field and fess
Shallots and sharks'fins face the smould'ring log
From cool Parnassus down to wild Loch Ness
We'll suffocate before the epilogue
Do bank clerks rule their abacus by thumb
The best of all things to an end must come