An all-important query.
Thou Man of Flank! a CUT of thine
Would silence hunger's call;
But a Friend's, CUT alas! is mine,
"The unkindest cut of all."
O for a herring, dainty fish!
Or tender lambkin's fry;
But as in vain for MEAT I wish,
'Tis MEET that I should sigh.
Ere by the freaks of Fortune floor'd,