Chocolate
Liquid delectable, I love thy brown
Deep-glimmering color like a wood-nymph's tress;
Potent and swift to urge on Love's excess,
Thou wert most loved in the fair Aztec town.
Where Cortes, battling for Iberia's crown,
First found thee, and with rough and soldier guess,
Pronounced thy virtues of rare worthiness
And fit by Madrid's dames to gain renown.
When tasting of thy sweets, fond memories
Of bygone days in Versailles will arise;
Before the King, reclining at his ease,
I see Dubarry in rich toilet stand,
A gleam of passion in her lustrous eyes,
A Sevres cup held in her jeweled hand!
Deep-glimmering color like a wood-nymph's tress;
Potent and swift to urge on Love's excess,
Thou wert most loved in the fair Aztec town.
Where Cortes, battling for Iberia's crown,
First found thee, and with rough and soldier guess,
Pronounced thy virtues of rare worthiness
And fit by Madrid's dames to gain renown.
When tasting of thy sweets, fond memories
Of bygone days in Versailles will arise;
Before the King, reclining at his ease,
I see Dubarry in rich toilet stand,
A gleam of passion in her lustrous eyes,
A Sevres cup held in her jeweled hand!
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