1829.] AS'airs in General. 327 



I've tried all styles of hair-dressing, 



Madonnas, frizzes, crops ; 

 Her waist I've laced, her back I've braced. 



Till circulation stops ! 

 I've padded her, until I have 



Into a Venus wrought her ; • 



But puffing her has no effect ! 



— This is my eldest Daughter. ' 



Her gowns are a la Ackerman, 



Her corsets a la Belle ;* 

 Yet when the season ends, each beau 



Still leaves his T. T. L. 

 I patronise each dejeune. 



Each party on the water ; 

 Yet still she hangs upon my arm ! 



— This is my eldest Daughter. 



She did refuse a Gentleman — 



I own it was absurd — , 



She thought she ought to answer " No !" 



He took her at her word ! 

 But she'd say " Yes !" if any one 



That's eligible sought her : 

 She really is a charming girl, 



Though she's my eldest daughter ! 



This is all very light and pleasant, and will be said and sung in all 

 parties where " wits" are entertained for \he\r facetiae, and where " gen-r 

 tlemen are called on" by a circle of adoring belles, to give them 

 some subterfuge from the " Di tanti palpiti's" of the daughters of the 

 house, not yet brought out. But we like his pathetic compositions still 

 better. Few madrigals in the language contain more tenderness, 

 expressed with more simplicity, than this little appeal : — 



oh! am I NOT A LOVER STILIi? 



Oh ! am I not a lover still 



In heart and soul the same— 

 As when I sought thy bower first, 



And learnt to breathe thy name ? 

 Oh ! look I not as proud of thee .-' 



Oh ! speak I not as kind ? 

 And when I leave thee, do I not 



Leave joy itself behind ? 



The love I offered long ago 



Is but matured by time ; 

 As tendrils round their chosen bough 



Cling closer as they climb : 

 Then am I not a lover still. 



In heart and soul the same. 

 As when I sought thy bower first, 



And learnt to breathe thy name ? 



• La ndle Asscmbliie, the elegant publication that gives monthly a well-engraved 

 portrait of one of the Female Nobility, and coloured prints of London and Parisian 

 Fokliions. 



