Reflections from the files of the Saratoga Sun
1 years ago
Jan. 6, 1916
Youth’s Vanquished Joys
We hear it asked, “What has become
Of olden-time co’n pone;
Of Mammy’s beaten biscuits with
The flavor all their own;
But would they taste as good again
If they were served tonight?
Would memory make up, perchance,
For jaded appetite?
That chicken Maryland we knew
In golden bygone days
Seems to have lost its flavor now.
The pies that mother used to make
So flaky and so light,
Go well in verse–but would they tempt
The jaded appetite?
And thus in reminiscent vein,
One might ask “What’s become”
Of this and that and t’other thing,
Of doughnuts–and...
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