Book 3 in this very special series of song cycles by Timothy Bowers is for baritone and piano. The work explores texts that are by turns witty ironic and uplifting. The subjects are the poet Dylan Thomas William Pitt the Younger Oscar Wilde and Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld; and settings of two comic/ironic epitaphs by Byron - one addressed to the much-despised politician Castelreagh the other a poignant salute to the poet's dog Boatswain.