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...THE HARD TIMES IN ELFLAND; A STORY OF CHRISTMAS EVE by SIDNEY LANIER LOHENGRIN; PROEM by EMMA LAZARUS ON A YOUNG LADY'S SIXTH ANNIVERSARY by KATHERINE MANSFIELD JOHN WILKES BOOTH AT THE FARM (JANUARY 12, 1848) by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: THE VILLAGE ATHEIST by EDGAR LEE MASTERS REMBRANDT TO REMBRANDT by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |