Moore
If when his frisky Pegasus he mounted,
He’d sung, instead of the eternal HER
The stylish HIM, he might have been accounted
A gentleman as well as litterateur.
If Shakespeare had abstained from malty liquors,
And spent the time (when not purloining plays)
In pressing Francis Bacon’s velvet knickers
He might thereby have gained a social raise.
If Tommy Moore when not devoutly pressing