Her twice-five roseal toes are cramped in dread,
Each maidly instep mauven-pink is flushing.
A Trumpet Blast
Pale Patricians, sunk in self-indulgence,
Blink your blearèd eyes. Behold the Sun—
Burst proclaim in purpurate effulgence,
Demos dawning, and the Darkness done!
Hilaire Belloc, in addition to wiser matters, wrote most amusing nonsense animal verses.
THE PYTHON
A python I should not advise,—