[Listed in the table of contents under the pen name "Ta Van"]
Bring with ye gizzards of the Laughing Goose And bring the juice Of monkeys, penguins and vain cockatoos. Saint Aristippus and Saint Laughing Tom, Prithee now come, We shall incant a spell As solemn as all hell.
Saint Rabelais, ay, and saintly Anatole, I pray ye all, Saints Dekker, Butler, and Democritus All-glorious, Come with the feathers of the popinjay And goose-down grey And gentle dilberries gathered by the way. Come now and grace this revel As solemn as the devil.
For we shall chant hereby in incantation In honor of creation: With reverent step and upward-rolling eye We shall give praise most high To God and Man and their great Destination. High-stepping round the cauldron we shall call Sure, one and all, Those Sprites Primordial Out from the womb of darkness and no-time To join us in a rhyme To join us in a toast in this holy revel As solemn as the devil, Will drink their bumpers in a chanted spell
For we shall give them wine Finer than superfine, Brewed in our cauldrons to God and Man and the Great Holy Ghost. Made rich with gizzards of the Laughing Goose And monkey-juice. As solemn as all hell,