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 |