@PauloCereda -- Apt title of the collection: "Poetical Ingenuities and Eccentricities", and the name certainly gained new relevance a bit more than a half century later.
@barbarabeeton well spotted. :) Interestingly enough, I had a watermelon in Rio and it had just a couple of seeds — the watermelons in my parents' region have a lot of seeds!
@PauloCereda -- Have you ever had the other kind of "pickled" watermelon, the kind that's infused with vodka or lab alcohol, by means of a hypodermic drip during its last days on the vine? (Insidious.)
