Tom O’Roughley + 

“Though logic choppers rule the town, + 

And every man and maid and boy + 

Has marked a distant object down, + 

An aimless joy is a pure joy,” + 

Or so did Tom O’Roughley say + 

That saw the surges running by, + 

“And wisdom is a butterfly + 

And not a gloomy bird of prey. + 

“If little planned is little sinned + 

But little need the grave distress. + 

What’s dying but a second wind? + 

How but in zig-zag wantonness + 

Could trumpeter Michael be so brave?” + 

Or something of that sort he said, + 

“And if my dearest friend were dead + 

I’d dance a measure on his grave.” + 