"I before E
Except after C,
Unless pronounced A
As in 'neighbor' or 'weigh'"
Education is forfeit for reinforcing
such rules!
Sound a feisty reveille
while eyeing the schools!
Neither will our heirs be
agreeing to deceptions
Once
seeing, herein, these sufficient exceptions:
We were seized by a feeling
For fleeing on the ceiling
To a leisurely meal
With Keith, Sheila, and
Neil
We drank madeira, so foreign,
in steins
Along with a surfeit of
weird blueish wines
Being foolish, took codeine,
ate ancient proteins
Therein guaranteeing these
ogreish scenes
Wherein we're canoeing to a new
sovereign state
While deicing a kaleidoscope
on a hot jadeite plate
And kneeing obeisance to
an overseeing king
Our plebeian lips kissed
his counterfeit ring.
Then we unveiled their sleight-of-hand
trick
Deifying a heifer, with
effect atheistic
And falling from the heights
with a loud seismic crunch
We reignited the nonpareils
we had heisted for lunch.
So I before E
Except after C
Unless pronounced A?
False
decreeing, I say!
