II.

ODORS unsmelled are keen, but those I smell

Are keener; wherefore let me sniff again!

Enticing walnuts, I have known ye well

In youth, when pickles were a passing pain;

Unwitting youth, that craves the candy stem,

And sugar plums to olives doth prefer,

And even licks the pots of marmalade

When sweetness clings to them.

But now I dream of ambergris and myrrh,

Tasting these walnuts in the poplar shade.

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