Such a splendid Plum-Pudding for England,
Such a genuine English Plum-Padding!
Well we know the old Saw about too many cooks;
But a Saw is not always so sage as it looks;
And a Pudding so big as John Bull’s may require
All the hands and the spoons that toil on and ne’er tire
Of stirring the Pudding of England,
The mighty old English Plum-Pudding!
The proof of the Pudding’s in eating, they say;
And John Bull, who must eat it has likewise to pay;