It's hell to hope and to believe,

That good can swallow up the ill,

That gods are working, will achieve.

They may be, yet they disregard

Our cricket feelings, so we shrill

Sonnets and elegies round the yard...

Let's talk a bit of chlorophyll:

The sun was useless for our life,

No wine, no beef, no watercress

Until this chlorophyll grew rife