Marmalade upon the bread

Marmalade upon the bread   7
- yet not there alone -   5
tempts the birds to taste the spread
search the unbeknown.

Stood before them, overwrought,
- Poetry and Art -
clever efforts led to naught
sweetness to impart.

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(Trochaic 7/5)