Look out! Here comes a lovely poem! Attention!
Long live the Kapellmeister Frank!
Now let him purge the music-bank,
which of the cutter's person stank,
and sit there so that we may thank!
E'en Wagner's scores and parts so crank
shall stand before him free and frank:
however oft, when them he drank,
they made poor Vincenz lean and lank, —
Patroclus to the grave once sank:
my cry is: Long live P. P. Frank!
(poeta!)
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel, with a Brief History of the Bayreuth Festivals, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Grant Richards, 1899), No. 37