قراءة كتاب The Emperor's Rout
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A musical Miss, who divinely could sing,
But whose fair head, no larger than that of a Dot,73
Was filled with the thought of a True Lover’s Knot;74
How she caught as she came a most violent cold,
And felt such oppression and pain in her throat,
That she scarcely dared venture to utter a note;
And thus with most Misses of human creation,
How often their colds are but mere affectation.
The dancing began, and soft music was heard,
Provided, ’twas said, by the sweet Humming Bird.75
Old Colonel Gold Spangle,76 his dancing days past,
Volunteered with good humour the dances to cast;
Who, aided by Mars, the young lady had caught,
For moths, like their betters, as I have been told,
Are mightily taken with scarlet and gold.
The Foresters79 danced, arrayed all in green,
The Mouse,81 quite enamoured, entreated in vain
The hand of the lovely Pease Blossom82 to gain,
And the Satellite,83 though he till now had sat still,
Made up to the Seraph84 to dance a quadrille.
With the Coronets86 galloped around the great hall,
And the sad Mourning Widow,87 her weeds put away,
To waltz with the lustrous Japan,88 now quite gay;
While the Magpie89 obtained universal applause,
By fluttering a hornpipe upon his hind claws.
For wherever he went he was stupid and cross;
And his wife, an old dowdy, bereft of all wings,
Was unfit to appear as th’ associate of Kings;
The Dagger91 came armed, and looked all around,
But his charmer, Miss Snout,92 was no where to be found,
With his cousin, the Sprawler,94 joined the party so late,
That morn was forth peeping, and the dancing had done,
The guests were assembled around the great door,
Which the Lacqueys98 threw open, and each in his rank
Found a seat for himself, and they all ate and drank
With a relish that would not
