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قراءة كتاب The Peacock 'At Home:' A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball
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The Peacock 'At Home:' A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball
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class="smcap">Dotterell first opened the ball with the Plover;
Baron Stork, in a waltz, was allowed to excel,
With his beautiful partner, the fair Demoiselle;
And a newly-fledg’d Gosling, so fair and genteel,
A minuet swam with the spruce Mr. Teal.
A London-bred Sparrow—>a pert forward Cit!
Danc’d a reel with Miss Wagtail, and little Tom Tit.
And the Sieur Guillemot next performed a pas seul,
While the elderly bipeds were playing a Pool.
The Dowager Lady Toucan first cut in,
With old Doctor Buzzard and Adm’ral Penguin,
From Ivy bush tow’r came Dame Owlet the Wise,
And Counsellor Crossbill sat by to advise.
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“Baron Stork, in a waltz, was allowed to excel, &c.” Page 8.
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“The Dowager Lady Toucan first cut in, &c.” Page 8.
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“Till a Magpie, at length, the banquet announcing, &c.” Page 9.
Should pass many St. Valentines—yet be unmated,
Sat by, and remark’d that the prudent and sage
Were quite overlook’d in this frivolous age,
When Birds, scarce pen-feathered, were brought to a rout,
Forward Chits! from the egg-shell but newly come out:
In their youthful days, they ne’er witness’d such frisking,