For food, one wretched starveling fowl, no more—

Meat for one mouth, but mockery for three.

"You have my utmost." How should supper serve?

Peter broke silence: "To the spit with fowl!

And while 't is cooking, sleep!—since beds there be,

And, so far, satisfaction of a want.

Sleep we an hour, awake at supper-time,

Then each of us narrate the dream he had,

And he whose dream shall prove the happiest, point

The clearliest out the dreamer as ordained