The Spike or Victoria College Review 1940
Portrait
Portrait
Aggressive lady rationalists
Assault his virgin intellect;
He bares his petty wounds, invites
Beloved virus to infect.
He makes obeisance to the New,
Attempts a world-wide correlation;
Cubic legs and martyred flutes
Receive vociferous admiration.
Volubly in text-book French
He hymns the imminent Revolution;
From fragile cup imbibes his tea,
Embellished with a pinch of Kruschen.
By the fire, in slippered feet,
He switches on the Habanera,
Reads his Gibbon in the Spring,
And Winters at the Riviera.
R.L.M.