The Suet Dumpling.

Happy the man who in his pot contains

A suet dumpling; he nor feels the pains

Of going dinnerless, nor griping hunger;

But cheerful blows the fire with merry heart,

Often revolving when the happy minute

That brings it to his homely board will come.

Sometimes with longing eyes he gazes hard,

And views it boiling in the frothy waves;

Then, with his fork or spoon applied, he feels,