The New Book of Nonsense / Contribution to the Great Central Fair in Aid of the Sanitary Commission

A dandy came on from New York,
As pompous and stiff as a stork,
When he said, if you dont know how to get up a show,
They just raffled a dandy from York.

There lived and Old Maid in the city of Trenton, who to marry a youth,
all her faculties bent on,
She essay'd every art, to inveigle the heart of every young Dandy in Trenton.

There was an old King of Dahomey,
Whose realm was more sterile than loamy;