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SALAD: BROW, by                    
First Line: O cool in the summer is salad
Last Line: And eggs -- boil 'em hard.
Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer
Subject(s): Food & Eating


O COOL in the summer is salad,
And warm in the winter is love;
And a poet shall sing you a ballad
Delicious thereon and thereof.
A singer am I, if no sinner,
My muse has a marvellous wing,
And I willingly worship at dinner
The Sirens of Spring.

Take endive -- like love it is bitter,
Take beet -- for like love it is red;
Crisp leaf of the lettuce shall glitter,
And cress from the rivulet's bed;
Anchovies, foam-born, like the lady
Whose beauty has maddened this bard;
And olives, from groves that are shady;
And eggs -- boil 'em hard.





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