WITH chocolate-cream that you buy in the cake Large mouthfuls and hurry are quite a mistake. Wise persons prolong it as long as they can But putting in practice this excellent plan. The cream from the chocolate lining they dig With a Runaway match or a clean little twig. Many hundreds, -- nay, thousands -- of scoopings they make Before they've exhausted a twopenny cake. With ices 'tis equally wrongful to haste; You ought to go slowly and dwell on each taste. Large mouthfuls are painful, as well as unwise, For they lead to an ache at the back of the eyes. And the delicate sip is e'en better, one finds, If the ice is a mixture of different kinds. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO SIR HENRY WOTTON (1) by JOHN DONNE THE LILY IN CRYSTAL by ROBERT HERRICK ON LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD by BEN JONSON THE SOWER AND HIS SEED by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY THOMAS HOOD by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |