X 
DEDICATION. 
To smile, and make them gold ; then, not 
in vain 
Have I for you endured, and glorified your 
reign. 
For, ye are queens, all, all. Each has a 
throne 
In one or many hearts; therefore, ’tis 
meet 
Tribute to bring to you, and you alone. 
Empresses of Life’s pleasures! at your 
feet 
I place my little book. Your suppliant 
greet 
With one approving glance, so shall my 
fate 
Be blessed all men’s above; for, ’t is most 
sweet 
Triumph to gain that eometh over-late; 
For you I’ve liv’d, I live, to you I dedicate 
