The acid tongue with gourmet's expertise
For tea cucumber sandwiches a scone
The Turks said just take anything you please
While sharks to let's say potted shrimps are prone
It's one of many horrid happenings
That metred rhyme alone can souls enslave
An icicle of frozen marrow pings
Etruscan words which Greece and Rome engrave
Platonic Greece was not so talentless
What things we did we went the whole darned hog
Socrates watched his hemlock effervesce
With breaking voice across the Alps they slog
Where no one bothered how one warmed one's bum
They're kings we're mammal-cousins hi ho hum