The True Grecian Bend: A Story in Verse

A STORY IN VERSE
BY Larry Leigh,
“Whence and what art thou, execrable shape?”—Milton
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW YORK J. S. REDFIELD, PUBLISHER 140 FULTON STREET 1868
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by J. S. REDFIELD, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. Edward O. Jenkins, PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER , No. 20 North William St.
A woman in France got the spinal disease,
And from that sad moment she had no more ease;
To add to her anguish, she very soon found,
Oh, horrors! her back was becoming quite round.
The spasms of physical pain she endured,
Were keen, I assure you, and could not be cured;