The National Padding all parties protest
By themselves is best planned, and compounded the best,
And each eager spoon wielder will stoutly aver
All would turn out quite well had himself but a stir.
At the glorious Plum-Padding of England,
Old England’s unequalled Plum-Pudding!
The Stirrers-in-Chief, who’ve their spoons in the pan,
Have been stirring away on their own special plan
For a tidy long time, and triumphantly say
That no Season has shown, for this many a day,