The acid tongue with gourmet's expertise
His exaltation shocked both youth and crone
Old corned-beef's rusty armour spreads disease
Which neither time nor tide can long postpone
To one sweet hour of bliss my memory clings
Filching the lolly country thrift helped save
A daring baron pockets precious Mings
Etruscan words which Greece and Rome engrave
Platonic Greece was not so talentless
What things we did we went the whole darned hog
From cool Parnassus down to wild Loch Ness
No need to cart such treasures from the fog
Ventriloquists be blowed you strike me dumb
For Europe's glory while Fate's harpies strum