The warble frocks and debutantes, Soprano trilling nightingales, The extras dressed as elephants And tenors with their penguin tails; They mingle at the opera house With canapés on silver trays; Then dine on pigeon, goose and grouse, To reminisce their finest plays; When Romeo found Juliet The crowds were on their feet for days, When mighty Caesar’s end was met, The press regaled with highest praise; Such fine upstanding citizens, So crisply draped, so brightly gowned; The marvel of these denizens, So rarely seen, so well renowned.