Sonnet on a Monkey

Richard Rodney Bennett

O lovely O most charming pug

Thy graceful air and heav'nly mug

The beauties of his mind do shine

And ev'ry bit is shaped so fine

Your very tail is most devine

Your teeth is whiter than the snow

You are a great buck and a bow

Your eyes are of so fine a shape

More like a christians than an ape

His cheeks is like the roses blume

Your hair is like the ravens plume

His noses cast is of the roman

He is a very pretty weoman

I could not get a rhyme for roman

And was oblidged to call it weoman