To Marie

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To Marie

When the breeze from the bluebottle's blustering blim
     Twirls the toads in a tooroomaloo,
And the whiskery whine of the wheedlesome whim
     Drowns the roll of the rattatattoo,
Then I dream in the shade of the shally-go-shee,
     And the voice of the bally-molay
Brings the smell of stale poppy-cods blummered in blee
     From the willy-wad over the way.

Ah, the shuddering shoo and the blinketty-blanks
     When the yungalung falls from the bough
In the blast of a hurricane's hicketty-hanks
     On the hills of the hocketty-how!
Give the rigamarole to the clangery-whang,
     If they care for such fiddlededee;
But the thingumbob kiss of the whangery-bang
     Keeps the higgledy-piggle for me.

L'ENVOI

It is pilly-po-doddle and aligobung
     When the lollypop covers the ground,
Yet the poldiddle perishes punketty-pung
     When the heart jimmy-coggles around.
If the soul cannot snoop at the giggle-some cart,
     Seeking surcease in gluggety-glug,
It is useless to say to the pulsating heart,
     "Panky-doodle ker-chuggetty-chug!"

John Bennett