But is mainly sustained upon leasts and collations?
At least, it is so in all civilized nations.
Here's a fix! Yet indeed, soon or late, the whole race
Must the problem decide on, with good or ill grace.
We cannot go hungry; what are we to do?
Shall we pulse it, like Daniel, that knowing young Jew?
Letting Grahamite doctors our diet appoint,
Eat our very plain pudding without any joint?
Or, shall we the bloody alternative take,
And cannibal meals of our relatives make,