Don Pedro from his shirt has washed the fleas
His nasal ecstasy beats best Cologne
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
One gathers rosebuds or grows old alone
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
Were pots graffiti'd over by a slave
Th'outrageous Thames a troubled arrow slings
Till firemen come with hose-piped tidal wave
Staunch pilgrims longest journeys can't depress
A bird-brain banquet melts bold Mistress Mog
From cool Parnassus down to wild Loch Ness
Whiskey will always wake an Irish bog
On fish-slab whale nor seal has never swum
And lessors' dates have all too short a sum