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Bring me the beef, the dulcet pudding bring;
Or fry the mudlark's odoriferous wing;
Or simmering greens with soft rotation turn,
Champed in the luscious treasure of the churn!
Then pour the brown ale, rich as ever ran
From Balder's horn or Odin's creamy can!
Blest in that honeyed draught, let none repine
For nectarous noyeau or ambrosial wine!
But, lest my waning wealth refuse to raise
So fair a feast in these degenerate days,
Take from this Splendid Shilling what may find
Some sweet refection for a sober mind—
The earth-born apple, vegetable grace
Of Erin's sons, a blunder-loving race! &c.
Or fry the mudlark's odoriferous wing;
Or simmering greens with soft rotation turn,
Champed in the luscious treasure of the churn!
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From Balder's horn or Odin's creamy can!
Blest in that honeyed draught, let none repine
For nectarous noyeau or ambrosial wine!
But, lest my waning wealth refuse to raise
So fair a feast in these degenerate days,
Take from this Splendid Shilling what may find
Some sweet refection for a sober mind—
The earth-born apple, vegetable grace
Of Erin's sons, a blunder-loving race! &c.
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