They're not a bonanza, but merit a stanza

Or two from the doggerel bard.

The names of musicians and mummers

No longer are loud on our lips;

By the side of our buglers and drummers

Caruso endures an eclipse;

And the legions of freaks and of faddists

Who hailed him with rapturous awe,

O wonder of wonders, are finding out blunders,

And worse, in the writings of SHAW!