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But hark! a sound is stealing on my ear— A soft and silvery sound—I know it well. Its tinkling tells me that a time is near Precious to me—it is the Dinner Bell. O blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer, Thou bringest good things more than tongue may tell: Seared is, of course, my heart—but unsubdued Is, and shall be, my appetite for food. I go. Untaught and feeble is my pen; But on one statement I may safely venture: That few of our most highly gifted men Have more appreciation of the trencher. I go. One pound of British beef, and then What Mr. Swiveller called a “modest quencher”; That, “home-returning,” I may “soothly say,” “Fate cannot touch me: I have dined to-day.”
But hark! a sound is stealing on my ear— A soft and silvery sound—I know it well. Its tinkling tells me that a time is near Precious to me—it is the Dinner Bell. O blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer, Thou bringest good things more than tongue may tell: Seared is, of course, my heart—but unsubdued Is, and shall be, my appetite for food. I go. Untaught and feeble is my pen; But on one statement I may safely venture: That few of our most highly gifted men Have more appreciation of the trencher. I go. One pound of British beef, and then What Mr. Swiveller called a “modest quencher”; That, “home-returning,” I may “soothly say,” “Fate cannot touch me: I have dined to-day.”
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- C. S. Calverley (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 69 · printed citation: C. S. Calverley (Beer). · compiler notes excluded
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