Our great work, the Otia Merseiana, <br /> Edited by learned Mister Sampson, <br /> And supported by Professor Woodward, <br /> Is financed by numerous Bogus Meetings <br /> Hastily convened by Kuno Meyer <br /> To impose upon the Man of Business. <br /> <br /> All in vain! The accomplished Man of Business <br /> Disapproves of Otia Merseiana, <br /> Turns his back on Doctor Kuno Meyer; <br /> Cannot be enticed by Mister Sampson, <br /> To be present at the Bogus Meetings, <br /> Though attended by Professor Woodward. <br /> <br /> Little cares the staid Professor Woodward: <br /> He, being something of a man of business, <br /> Knows that not a hundred Bogus Meetings <br /> To discuss the Otia Merseiana <br /> Can involve himself and Mister Sampson <br /> In the debts of Doctor Kuno Meyer. <br /> <br /> So the poor deluded Kuno Meyer, <br /> Unenlightened by Professor Woodward -- <br /> Whom, upon the word of Mister Sampson, <br /> He believes to be a man of business <br /> Fit to run the Otia Merseiana -- <br /> Keeps on calling endless Bogus Meetings. <br /> <br /> Every week has now its Bogus Meetings, <br /> Punctually convened by Kuno Meyer <br /> In the name of Otia Merseiana: <br /> Every other week Professor Woodward <br /> Takes his place, and, as a man of business, <br /> Audits the accounts with Mister Sampson. <br /> <br /> He and impecunious Mister Sampson <br /> Are the mainstay of the Bogus Meetings; <br /> But the alienated Man of Business <br /> Cannot be allured by Kuno Meyer <br /> To attend and meet Professor Woodward, <br /> Glory of the Otia Merseiana. <br /> <br /> Kuno Meyer! Great Professor Woodward! <br /> Bogus Meetings damn, for men of business, <br /> Mister Sampson's Otia Merseiana.<br /><br />Sir Walter Raleigh<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sestina-otiosa/
