The wild horse champs the Parthenon's top frieze
When masons clutch the breath we held on loan
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
And loudly sang off-key without a tone
To one sweet hour of bliss my memory clings
With sombre thoughts they grimly line the nave
Such merchandise a melancholy brings
The nicest kids for strickiest toffees crave
The wolf devours both sheep and shepherdess
And starve the sniveling baby like a dog
While homeward thirsts to each quenched glass say yes
Their sculptors did our best our hulks the clog
On fish-slab whale nor seal has never swum
And lessors' dates have all too short a sum