53. To Umber -
All the presents this year that at Christmas you got
You have sent on to me — and they are a choice lot!
Seven toothpicks, twelve tablets, a napkin, a mug,
A half-peck of beans, and a sponge, and a jug
Of Laletan wine, some dried prunes, and a casket
Of Picenian olives, and figs in a basket.
I think that in all they were worth half a crown:
Yet it took eight big footmen to carry them down.
You'ld have found it less trouble one page-boy to send
With five pounds of plate as your present, my friend.
You have sent on to me — and they are a choice lot!
Seven toothpicks, twelve tablets, a napkin, a mug,
A half-peck of beans, and a sponge, and a jug
Of Laletan wine, some dried prunes, and a casket
Of Picenian olives, and figs in a basket.
I think that in all they were worth half a crown:
Yet it took eight big footmen to carry them down.
You'ld have found it less trouble one page-boy to send
With five pounds of plate as your present, my friend.
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