With a throstle sharp and narrow.
And I can be as raucous as
A golden-spotted jaguar
And I can be as glaucous as
The trees in Nicaragua.
Drink in my subtle melodies,
My chartreuse-tinted threnodies....
Violoncello (known more popularly as
the ’cello to rhyme with mellow-yellow)
I am the waxen fruit of instruments;
I drone till beads of perspiration break