From playboy Chance the nymph no longer flees
Through snobbish growing round her hemline zone
The understanding critic firstly sees
And empty cages show life's bird has flown
O Parthenon you hold the charger's strings
When flame a form to wrath ancestral gave
In salads all chew grubs before they've wings
To break a rule Britannia's might might waive
Staunch pilgrims longest journeys can't depress
Or grinning like a pale-faced golliwog
The colonel's still escutcheoned in undress
Lobsters for sale must be our apologue
Poor reader smile before your lips go numb
Soliloquies predict great things old chum