THE SECRET SOURCE

The secret source who, serving, showed no note,
When Straw approached, as was most needed, wrote;
Bending his ear unto his masters' plight,
Of present weapons warned, most fit for flight:
"Farewell, pension; Oh 'C', come close their eyes;
More gulls than songbirds thrive, more fools than wise."

                    (Apologies to Orlando Gibbons)