To venerate the simple days
Which lead the seasons by,
Needs but to remember
That from you or I,
They may take the trifle
Termed mortality!
Which lead the seasons by,
Needs but to remember
That from you or I,
They may take the trifle
Termed mortality!
(F.55/J.57)
[2] seasons:: ingredients.
[5] trifle:: a cake with various ingredients like wine, cream, almonds, jam and jelly, etc. (OED 1598, 1860).
[6] mortality:: something with deadly attraction.
TRIFLE CAKE. Cut out a rice or diet-bread cake about two inches from the edge, fill it with a rich custard, with a few blanched and split almonds, and pieces of raspberry jam, and put on the whole a high whip. ─ The Household Encyclopedia (1859)
