Augusta.
"Handsome and haughty!" a comment that came
From lips which were never accustomed to malice:
A girl with a presence superb as her name,
And charmingly fitted for love—in a palace!
And oft I have wished—for in musing alone
One's fancy is apt to be very erratic—
That the lady might wear—No! I never will own
A thought so decidedly undemocratic!
But if 'twere a coronet—this, I'll aver,
No duchess on earth could more gracefully wear it;
And even a democrat—thinking of her—
Might surely be pardoned for wishing to share it!
