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To make a perfect fish menu	A
The witches found they had to place	B
Upon this alcoholic base	B
Great stacks of food and spices too	A
Of all the things most edible	C
On which the souls of fish have dined	D
That fish would sell their souls to find	D
Most gracious to their sense of smell	E
Is flesh exotic to their kind	D
Cold blooded things yet not marine	F
And not of earth but half between	F
That live enclosed within the sand	G
Without the power of locomotion	H
And mammal breeds whose blood is hot	I
That court the sea but love it not	I
That need the air but not the land	G
The Laodiceans of the ocean	H
So in this spacious cauldron went	J
Cargoes of food and condiment	K
Oysters fished from Behring Strait	L
Were brought and thrown in by the crate	L
Spitzbergen scallops on half shell	E
Mussels starfish clams as well	E
Limpets from the Hebrides	M
Shrimps and periwinkles these	M
So celebrated as a stew	A
Were meant to flavour up the brew	A
Then for the more substantial fare	N
The curried quarter of a tail	O
Hewn from a stranded Greenland whale	O
A liver from a Polar bear	N
A walrus' heart and pancreas	P
A blind Auk from the coast of Java	Q
A bull moose that had died from gas	R
While eating toadstools near Ungava	Q
One bitter cold November day	S
Five sea lion cubs were then thrown in	T
Shot by the Cretan's javelin	H
In a wild fight off Uruguay	S
With flippers fresh from the Azores	U
Fijian kidneys by the scores	U
Together with some pollywogs	U
And kippered hocks of centipedes	U
And the hind legs of huge bull frogs	U
Raked by the millions from the reeds	U
Of slimy Patagonian bogs	U
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Then before the copper lid	V
Was jammed upon the pyramid	V
The sisters scattered on the top	W
Many a juicy lollipop	W
Tongues from the Ganges crocodile	X
Spawn from the delta of the Nile	X
Hoofs of sheep and loins of goats	U
Raised from foundered cattle boats	U
Titbits they knew might blend with hops	U
Might strengthen rum or season rye	Y
From Zulu hams and Papuan chops	U
To filets mignons from Shanghai	Y
Now while volcanic fires burned	Z
Making the cauldron fiercely hot	I
Lulu with her ladle churned	Z
The pungent contents of the pot	I
From which distinctive vapours soon	A2
Rose palpably before the view	Q
Then Ardath summoned a typhoon	A2
Which as it swooped upon the stew	Q
And swept around the compass bore	B2
To every sea and every shore	B2
The tidings of the witches' Feast	C2
And from the West and from the East	C2
And from the South and from the North	D2
From every bay and strait and run	H
From the Tropics to the Arctic sun	H
The Parliament of fish came forth	D2
Lured by a smell surpassing far	E2
The potencies of boiling tar	E2
For essences were in this brew	Q
Unknown to blubber or to glue	Q
And unfamiliar to the nose	U
Of sailors hardened as they are	E2
To every unctuous wind that blows	U
From Nantucket to Baccalieu	Q
The crudest oil one ever lit	F2
Was frankincense compared to it	F2
It entered Hades and the airs	U
Resuscitated the Immortals	U
It climbed the empyrean stairs	U
And drove St Peter from the portals	U

E. J. Pratt

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