(Another response to Chesterton's remark)
xxxxxxxxxxxxSay Cheese!
O poets! Eloquent on birds and bees,
On love and death, on daffodils and trees,
Why shun you so the noble theme of cheese?
Mysteriously silent, poets lost a
Rewarding subject; Byron might have tossed a
Stanza or two in praise of Double Gloucester.
No Scottish Cheddar (mousetrap with a kilt on)
From Robert Burns? No elegiac Stilton -
The favourite cheese of Lycidas - from Milton?
No ode to Wensleydale or to Caerphilly,
No cheesy hymns, delectable or smelly,
From Tennyson or Browning, Keats or Shelley?
I speak, of course, of proper English curds’ worth,
And not that foreign muck, barely a turd’s worth,
Unless from sheep - in which case, where is Wordsworth?
Last edited by Brian Allgar; 12-07-2021 at 11:58 PM.
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