Testo Menagerie

A fellow of the Royal Society his house played host to a menagerie, Where a penguin dressed in butler's tails served him port and brought the mail. His parakeets could impersonate the st-st-stutter of the magistrate who lived next door but rarely called for he found no amusement in it all. Evenings in were seldom tame for he'd taught his pets to entertain, The chimp would start on violin and soon the others would join in, An orangutan would play the spoons from a repertoire of familiar tunes And exotic birds would harmonise for pale sweet meats and sugared flies