From playboy Chance the nymph no longer flees
His exaltation shocked both youth and crone
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
The thumb- and finger-prints of Al Capone
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
Signalling gauchos very rarely shave
A darling baron pockets precious Mings
Victorious worms grind all into the grave
The peasant's skirts on rainy days she'd tress
What things we did we went the whole darned hog
Socrates watched his hemlock effervesce
No need to cart such treasures from the fog
Though bretzels take the dols from board-room drum
Soliloquies predict great things old chum