The marble tomb gapes wide with jangling keys
His nasal ecstasy beats best Cologne
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
While sharks to let's say potted shrimps are prone
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
Whose ocean still-born herrings madly brave
A daring baron pockets precious Mings
Victorious worms grind all into the grave
Emboggled minds may puff and blow and guess
In indian summers Englishmen drink grog
Socrates watched his hemlock effervesce
One misses cricket hearth and croaking frog
Poor reader smile before your lips go numb
For Europe's glory while Fate's harpies strum