...of Bovril and its jars
[I've sent in 3 variants on this theme. Bovril, although still sold of course, is no longer seen - by me, at least - in the magnificently styled sizeable jars of the past (before my time, admittedly.) And some well-known supermarkets (which shall remain unnamed by me here) don't seem to sell it at all! I rest my case, believeing these facts bring it within the purvieew of the brief.]
An old, 16-ounce, Bovril jar,
Dug up, may tell its story.
I cry “I salute what you are;
You hold the past: past glory!
So pristine, crystalline and true;
Imperial, not metric!
Embossed, not merely labelled! You
Bode nutriment electric –
That mythic power known as ‘vril’
Which Bulwer-Lytton, scribe,
Knew, prescient (as authors will)
Sustained his future tribe;
Plus strength of Roman ox!”
That jar, quiescent, void of label
Rests dignified now in a box
Upon a display table.
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