Lines to Be Embroidered on a Bib
The Child Is Father Of The Man, But Not For Quite A While
Lines to Be Embroidered on a Bib - meaning Summary
Food, Fame, and Nonsense
Nash lists famous historical and fictional figures who apparently lived without modern dietary fuss, using comic anachronism to mock contemporary anxieties about health, vitamins, and prescribed diets. The poem treats such worries as trivial and advises simple enjoyment of food—"eat your nice cereal"—while wryly suggesting reputation precedes any claim to culinary authority. Its tone is playful and irreverent rather than didactic.
Read Complete AnalysesSo Thomas Edison Never drank his medicine; So Blackstone and Hoyle Refused cod-liver oil; So Sir Thomas Malory Never heard of a calory; So the Earl of Lennox Murdered Rizzio without the aid of vitamins or calisthenox; So Socrates and Plato Ate dessert without finishing their potato; So spinach was too spinachy For Leonardo da Vinci; Well, it's all immaterial, So eat your nice cereal, And if you want to name your ration, First go get a reputation.
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