Living
Count Rumford
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, IV: Poems and Plays, ed. E. V. Lucas
Living
I deal in aliments fictitious
And teaze the poor with soups nutritious.
Of bones and flesh I make dilution
And belong to the National Institution.
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