Its "second grade" now costs me less;
And green peas (marrowfat)
Are down to fourpence. I can run to that.
And, though my coffers, sadly thinned,
May not command a home-killed ham,
And though the fees for pilchards (tinned)
And eggs (to eat) and strawberry-jam
Are still beyond my means
(The same remark applies to butter-beans);
Yet milk (condensed) and salmon ("pink"),