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FERDINANDO AND ELVIRA;
Or, the Gentle Pieman.
PART I.
AT a pleasant evening party I had taken down to supper
One whom I will call Elvira, and we talked of love and Tupper.
Mr. Tupper and the poets, very lightly with them dealing,
For I've always been distinguished for a strong poetic feeling.
Then we let off paper crackers, each of which contained a motto,
And she listened while I read them, till her mother told her not to.
Then she whispered, "To the ball-room we had better, dear, be walking;
If we stop down here much longer, really people will be talking."
There were noblemen in coronets, and military cousins,
There were captains by the hundred, there were baronets by dozens.
