I've long mused on buying a rifle,

A chunk of an aeroplane's gear

Or other belligerent trifle

By way of a small souvenir;

I've thought 'twould be fine (and your pardon

I beg if this savours of swank)

If the grotto that graces my garden

Were topped by a tank.

But only this morn I decided

Exactly the thing I preferred