This is the month of the Zodiac

When I want a pretty deft-handed waitress.

Bring a china-bowl, you merry young soul;

Bring anything green, from worsted to celery;

Bring pure olive-oil from Italy’s soil—

Then your china-bowl we’ll well array.

When the time arrives chip choicest chives,

And administer quietly chili and capsicum—

Young girls do not quite know what’s what

’Till as a Poet into their laps I come).