No, not even a look,
Although calling he still would remain.
Like the boy that we read of in old Æsop's fable,
He has jested till none to believe him are able.
"Come, niece, give us some punch,
And of cake a slight hunch,
May it taste as it looks, so uncommonly nice,
That I've wished for some long,
But I feared 'twould be wrong,
And might p'rhaps be thought greedy to ask for a slice.