When one with t'other straightaway agrees
When masons clutch the breath we held on loan
The understanding critic firstly sees
And empty cages show life's bird has flown
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
The North Wind Bites into his architrave
An icicle of frozen marrow pings
The nicest kids for strickiest toffees crave
Platonic Greece was not so talentless
Shallots and sharks'fins face the smould'ring log
Poor Yorick comes to bury not address
Their sculptors did our best our hulks the clog
Though bretzels take the dols from board-room drum
yet from the City's pie pulled not one plum