Logwood, not Lotos, floods Oporto's bowls.

Troops of old tosspots oft, to sot, consort.

Box tops, not bottoms, schoolboys flog for sport.

No cool monsoons blow soft on Oxford dons,

Orthodox, jog-trot, book-worm Solomons!

Bold Ostrogoths of ghosts no horror show.

On London shop fronts no hop-blossoms grow.

To crocks of gold no dodo looks for food.

On soft cloth footstools no old fox doth brood.

Long-storm-tost sloops forlorn work on to port.