Excerpt from What We Cook on Cape Cod
A Cape Cod cook book! you who stray
Far from the old sand-bordered Bay,
The cranberry bogs, the tossing pines,
The wind-swept beaches frothing lines,
You city dwellers who, like me,
Were children, playing by the sea,
Whose fathers manned the vanished ships -
Hark! do I hear you smack your lips?
A Cape Cod cook book! My oh my!
I know that twinkle on your eye,
And why you're pricking up your ears,
You've turned the clock back thirty years.
I know that smile of yours; it tells
Of chowder, luscious as it smells;
And when you laugh aloud, you dream
Of berry dumpling, bathed in cream.
A Cape Cod cook book! Why, I'll bet
The doughnut crock could tempt you yet!
Those Cape Cod doughnuts! Yes you'll take
A few of those, and then some cake -
The frosted kinds-and-let me see -
Some pie, of course, and - Mercy me!
You can't go on; it wouldn't do!
One takes on weight at forty-two.
A Cape Cod cook book! Here they are!
A breath from every cookie jar,
A whiff from ovens spicy sweet,
Two hundred secrets - good to eat!
Thanksgiving, clambake, picnic grove,
Each lends a taste, a treasure trove;
And here they are for you to buy -
What's that? You've bought one? So have I.
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