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There's nothing here sublime, / But just a roving rhyme, / Run off to pass the time, / With nought titanic in / The theme that it supports, / And, though it treats of quarts, / It's bare of golden thoughts -- / It's just a pannikin.
I think it's rather hard / That each Australian bard -- / Each wan, poetic card -- / With thoughts galvanic in / His fiery soul alight, / In wild aerial flight, / Will sit him down and write / About a pannikin.