The acid tongue with gourmet's expertise
When masons clutch the breath we held on loan
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
Which neither time nor tide can long postpone
It's one of many horrid happenings
Filching the lolly country thrift helped save
An icicle of frozen marrow pings
Till firemen come with hose-piped tidal wave
The wolf devours both sheep and shepherdess
One tongue will do to keep the verse agog
On wheels the tourist follows hos hostess
One misses cricket hearth and croaking frog
And let you off from your opinions glum
In cognac brandy is Bacardi rum?