Or pluck red-currants on some summer day,

Then take of raspberries an equal part,

Add cream and sugar—can mere words convey

The luscious joys of this delightful tart?

Is Lunch worth lunching? If such cates should fail,

Go out of country bread a solid hunch,

Pile on it cheese, wash down with country ale,

And, faring plainly, yet enjoy thy lunch.

Yea, this is truth, the lunch of knife and fork,

The pic-nic lunch, spread out upon the earth,