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First Line: "IT'S LATE, PERHAPS, FOR CHERRY PIE"
Last Line: AND SWEETER FAR IS MARY IN THE KITCHEN MAKING PIES
Subject(s): DESSERTS;FOOD & EATING;PIES;

IT'S late, perhaps, for cherry pie,
But just in time for berry pie,
For goose, and rasp, and huckleberry temptingly in reach;
And on the vines now flowing free
Are squash and pumpkins growing free;
And now pan-dowdies are in style, and cobblers made of peach.

The radiant fruits so fair to see,
The flaky crust that's there to see,
Afford a luscious spectacle most fair to mortal eyes;
But better worth the taking there
Than all the pastry baking there
And sweeter far is Mary in the kitchen making pies.



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