Potted Herring

Though the casual Govan herring

Warns us by a sense unerring

That the dead need but interring—

Pisces Benedicte.

Taken fresh and all unspotted,

Rolled in vinegar and potted,

O, it tickles the parotid—

Pisces Benedicte.

—Parvus¹ (in Glasgow University Magazine): Sis