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EVOLUTION by HARRY THURSTON PECK

First Line: FRESH FROM THE GRIDDLE'S WARM EMBRACE
Last Line: AMBROSIAL VISION — BUCKWHEAT CAKE!
Subject(s): EVOLUTION;

FRESH from the griddle's warm embrace
It smokes before the ravished sight,
A dash of Indian in its face,
All golden brown, all liquid light,
While from a hundred tiny cells
The sirup glints in amber foam,
And forth the melting butter wells
As honey oozing from the comb.
Each morsel, like a Houri's kiss,
Melts at the lip a fairy flake
To grace thine apotheosis,
Ambrosial vision — buckwheat cake!



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