620 Pall-Mail Poetry. [JUNE, 



Now how this sweet effusion was received, 



I cannot say : I heard, in confidence, 

 Her bright eyes moistened, and her bosom heaved 



With sweet sensations not yet banished thence ; 

 Till with a sigh or two at length relieved, 



She kissed the scrawl, and, more in penitence 

 Than grief or wrath, put it securely by, 

 In a small russia note-case lying nigh. 



But be that as it may, the effect this letter 



Had on her conduct was soon seen. The papers, 



Some three months after this receipt, or better, 

 (My Muse is often troubled with the vapours, 



And little cares for dates when they beset her,) 

 Announced, with some unusual cuts and capers 



Which, had I power, I'd banish in a trice hence 



Her marriage to the youth by special licence 1 



The Post 's was a superior piece of diction, 



And made upon me then a deep impression : 

 The words were sweet, and flowed without restriction 



In most mature and elegant succession. 

 But time glides on this is at least no fiction 



And deadens all things in a due progression, 

 Or nearly all : a scolding wife, perhaps, 

 Is rarely altered by its loss or lapse. 



'Twas in this style" The bride was richly dressed, 



" Une robe brodee, de point de I' Angleterre, 

 " Aveo des manches tres longues" the le had best 



Have been left out ; but printers little care 

 For nice constructions, so the thing's expressed 



(f Une jupe de satin blanc" for show and wear 

 " Avec souliers du meme ;" the latter rankle 

 Somewhat when coupled with a clumsy ankle. 



" Her head was circled by a wreath of flowers, 



White as the fresh-fallen snow. From these depended 



Longues barbes de blond, no phrase, we know, of ours 

 Unless the language had been much amended^ 



Can well describe. They spoke the highest power 

 Of art, and raised th' effect that was intended. 



The whole was Madame Frill's, and well supported 



The fame for which her services are courted." G. H. 



