Silent bagpipe drone in a pedant’s dull recital
A scornful verse mocks a long-eared pedant reciting a task with nasal bagpipe tones. It portrays vapid tropes masking emptiness, lamenting a tedious recital and the speaker’s disdain for such tomfoolery.
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