Ponder, if you please, his pleas,

Patience, ere you slight his slit.

Long there raged a warfare grim

In the councils of the Nut;

Socks were all in all to him

Abso-simply-lutely; but

Here's a problem for you pat—

How shall Archibald disclose

Through the thickness of the spat

Iridescent demi-hose?