The acid tongue with gourmet's expertise
For tea cucumber sandwiches a scone
The understanding critic firstly sees
With cherry-pips his cottage floor is sown
How it suprised us pale grey underlings
With sombre thoughts they grimly line the nave
Th'outrageous Thames a troubled arrow slings
For burning bushes never fish forgave
The fasting fakir doesn't smell the less
And starve the sniveling baby like a dog
From cool Parnassus down to wild Loch Ness
Lobsters for sale must be our apologue
On fish-slab whale nor seal has never swum
And lessors' dates have all too short a sum