In ancient times, on Nantucket Island, there was an unmarried young man
Whose [employment of a?]* private detective was so protracted that it caused financial losses,**
* (or “tenure as a”)
** (Yingyu da cidian, s.v. “suck it,” definition 4)
Was shocked when he first met Will Yeats,
For the latter was clad
Like a suburban dad
In tennies and t-shirt and sweats.
Though it verges upon the perverse,
Beauty's better than Truth, which is worse.
Modern poets can't do
All the things the Greeks knew,
'Cos we've taken an urn for the verse.
In ancient times, on Nantucket Island, there was an unmarried young man
Whose [employment of a?]* private detective was so protracted that it caused financial losses,**
* (or “tenure as a”)
** (Yingyu da cidian, s.v. “suck it,” definition 4)