<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471056" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ballade of the Glutton</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm greedy by nature, and often in vain <br>Have lingered too long o'er the succulent hare, <br>Accepting the jelly, ignoring the pain, <br>Intent on receiving far more than my share. <br>I worship the plover's egg, tasty and rare, <br>And idolize fanciful French fricasses; <br>But what, darling dainties, with you can compare, <br>Soused salmon and lamb and young ducks and green peas? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ask for real turtle, again and again-- <br>Observe the Lord Mayor's John Thomases stare!<br>For kitchen-recitals to Susan and Jane, <br>And powdered impertinence, what do I care? <br>I sit down to eat, and I vow and declare, <br>I'd honour a dish were it made of stewed bees, <br>Though loyal to you, should you chance to be there, <br>Soused salmon and lamb and young ducks and green peas. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I cherish a chef, be he Grecian or Dane; <br>I even can relish a collop of bear; <br>I love ev'ry calf--if it boasts a fine brain-- <br>And melt at a pullet, or even a pair. <br>Though gold's on the table and stately the fare, <br>I greet a grand entree with almost a sneeze <br>If you, dearest dainties, are sweet on the air-- <br>Soused salmon and lamb and young ducks and green peas. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">L'envoi: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Redcoats of England, who struggle and dare, <br>Your glory's a morsel no glutton can please; <br>My yearning is all for a soft-cushioned chair, <br>Soused salmon and lamb and young ducks and green peas.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Norman+Rowland+Gale">Norman Rowland Gale</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471056" data-title="The Ballade of the Glutton de Norman Rowland Gale" data-description="I'm greedy by nature, and often in vain Have lingered too long o'er the succulent hare, Accepting the jelly, ignoring the pain, Intent on receiving far more than my share. I worship the plover's egg, tasty and rare, And idolize fanciful Frenc..."></div> </div> </div>

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