The Star and the Garter

XII I Love you. That seems simple? No! Hear what the physiologist Says on the subject. Zo and fro The motor axis of the brain Eitts on the cerebellum hard, Makes the medulla itch : the bard Twttches hes spinal cord again, Excites Rolando’s fissure, and Impinges on the Pineal gland. Then Hippocampus major strikes The nerves, and we may say ‘He likes,” But of the umbilical cord Cut the cerebrum like a sword, And afferent ganglia, sensory bones, Shake in the caecum: then one groans “ He likes Miss What's your Name.” And if The appendix vermiformis biff The pericardium, pleura shoves The femur—we may say: ‘‘ He loves.” 29