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| By Henri Julien - File:Beaugrand - La chasse-galerie, 1900.djvu, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37002830 |
The winter came and went that year
It was a falling rain affair
Precipitation inundation deep
Floating fixtures everywhere
Profits soared spilled overboard
With concentrates from margin cuts
Watching lifelines drain away
Promoting shares in water butts
The Sandman with a grain of truth
Many bags beneath his eyes
Building barricades to stem the tide
As sleepless forms shed their disguise
Greedy needs and wasteful deeds
Scrubbed hard the farms and glades
What once was kept no longer slept
Forlorn tirades of ambuscades
Earnings rode on golden avenues
A fast returning avalanche
As sailing ships rode perfect storms
No sign of land nor olive branch
Ambuscade: Oxford Dictionaries
Origin
Late 16th century: from French embuscade, from Italian imboscata, Spanish emboscada, or Portuguese embuscada, based on a late Latin word meaning 'to place in a wood'; related to bush1.
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