THE MAIDEN'S CHOICE.

Genteel in personage,

Conduct and equipage,

Noble by heritage,

Generous and free;

Brave, not romantic,

Learn'd, not pedantic,

Frolic, not frantic,

This must he be.

Honour maintaining,

Meanness disdaining.

Still entertaining,

Engaging and new:

Neat, but not finical,

Sage, but not cynical,

Never tyrannical,

But ever true.