Classic Poem

An Agile Ambulating Alligator
 Observed upon the bank one sultry eve,
A Patronizing Prestidigitator
 With posi tive ly nothing up his sleeve.

The Ravenous Reptilian Alligator
 Remarked, “It must be deuced hot in town!”
And, winking at a Passing Legislator,
 He gulped the Prestidigitator down.

Alas! the Portly Prestidigitator
 Was garnished with his Implements of Art—
A Wand, a Patent Lightning Calculator,
 A Rabbit and a Necromantic Chart.

Such Objects in the Saurian's Equator
 Could hardly fail to put him out of trim;
In fact, the Late-repenting Alligator
 Acknowledged that they disagreed with him.

And thus a Drear, Dyspeptic Alligator
 Is stretched upon the Silicated Sands;
A Predigested Prestidigitator
 Is what his Constitution now demands.