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Strictly Baroque

You were always exuberant and daring

Rhetoric came easily from your lips

Your overstatement was a joy to behold

Those endless aphorisms smart as whips

 

Strictly baroque, strictly baroque

Your theatricals would provoke a saint

That dress sense was a riot of colour

Not even Versailles had more paint

 

Over-ornamentation was your undoing

You talked like a modern Bern...

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