Guy Wetmore Carryl

“ So princely and so prominent, so solemn, so predominant
It looked upon the table, that, with fascinated eye,
The youth, with sudden wonder struck, electrified, and thunder struck,
Could only stammer stupidly: “Oh Golly! What a pie!” ”

“ She’d take some indigestible, unpopular comestible
And to its better nature would so tenderly appeal
That Jack invoked a benison upon a haunch of venison,
When ready she was serving him a little leg of veal!
Jack said she was a miracle. The word was not satirical,
For daily climbing upward, she excelled herself at last:
The acme of facility, the zenith of ability
Was what she gave her brother for his Christmas Day repast. ”