cnistonca uomina - Old Fulton History

Page 2 18 October 1957
Who Was This Poet?
The following is one of a group of poems inscribed in a notebook
found in Chicago by Mrs. Henry Slivinski, Bradford, Pa., and written
by Alice Moore. Most poems are dated 1855 and 1856, and mention
is made of reading some of them before the Literary League of Java,
March, 1855, and in two instances she writes that the poems have
been read before the Teacher's Convention in Arcade in January
1856. The Mary C, Shepard is believed to have been the late Mary
S„ Parke, daughter of Col. Charles 0„ Shepard, Sr., Arcade.
THAT PIECE OP PIE
Dedicated to Mary C, Shepard-the Maker
Poets may sing enchantingly
Of what to them is fair to see
May chant the praise in numbers meet
Of what they think is good to eat
But I with humble strain would try
To praise in song "That Piece of Pie."
While Bacchus votaries throng the board
With various kinds of liquor stored
And tell the excellence divine
Which they behold in rosy wine
Why with more reason may not I
Embalm in praise "That Piece of Pie."
Some canine-like delight in meat
And think naught else so much a treat
As nice large spareribs roast or baked
Or good fat mutton or beefsteak
But such things do not take my eye
Since I did taste "That Piece of Pie."
One sung of hasty puddings fame
Gave sundry rules to eat the same
But in this case, no rules you need
You would undoubtedly succeed
After a taste, in staying by
Until you eat "That Piece of Pie."
'Twas simply made, some flour and lard
Was made into a paste, not hard
Next some minced apples flavored well
With cinnamon. Now strange to tell
That with these plain ingredients nigh
Mortal could make "That Piece of Pie."
Perhaps you'd like to have me tell
Who made the pie, but "twere not well
The epicures of every clime
Would come in swarms with her to dine
None but goodlooking ones need try
To know who made "That Piece of Pie."
Feb. 1856 ALICE