Mr. Punch's After-Dinner Stories 16 – Anonymous · Verses Across
Literature · Humor
Mr. Punch's After-Dinner Stories 16Rambling Rondeaux
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Literature · Humor
Mr. Punch's After-Dinner Stories 16
Rambling Rondeaux
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At Table d'hôte
At table d'hôte, I quite decline
To sit there and attempt to dine!
Of course you never dine, but "feed,"
And gobble up with fearsome greed
A hurried meal you can't define.
The room is close, and, I opine,
I should not like the food or wine;
While all the guests are dull indeed
At table d'hôte!
The clatter and the heat combine
One's appetite to undermine.
When noisy waiters take no heed,
But change the plates at railway speed--
I feel compelled to "draw my line"
At table d'hôte!
