The marble tomb gapes wide with jangling keys
Since Elgin left his nostrils in the stone
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
The thumb- and finger-prints of Al Capone
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
When flame a form to wrath ancestral gave
They both are right not unformed smatterings
That every verbal shock aims to deprave
The fasting fakir doesn't smell the less
One tongue will do to keep the verse agog
From cool Parnassus down to wild Loch Ness
With breaking voice across the Alps they slog
Do bank clerks rule their abacus by thumb
Soliloquies predict great things old chum