Sunday, May 7, 2023

In Praise of Breakfast

Breakfast Anyone? ~ by Therese Lynch
Honorable Mention ~ Annual Juried Show
September 2022
Wabash Valley Artists Society ~ Indiana
[See also, 1st place 2021]
Breakfast

A dinner party, coffee, tea,
Sandwich, or supper, all may be
In their way pleasant. But to me
Not one of these deserves the praise
That welcomer of new-born days,
A breakfast, merits;
ever giving
Cheerful notice we are living
Another day refreshed by sleep,
When its festival we keep.
Now although I would not slight
Those kindly words we use ‘Good night’,
Yet parting words are words of sorrow,
And may not vie with sweet ‘Good Morrow’,
With which again our friends we greet,
When in the breakfast-room we meet,
At the social table round,
Listening to the lively sound
Of those notes which never tire,
Of urn, or kettle on the fire
. . .

By Mary Lamb (1764 – 1847)

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