Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World. / To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguise of dress.

by Anonymous

That opulence departed leaves behind:

For wealth was theirs, not far remov’d the date,

When commerce proudly flourish’d thro’ the state;

At her command the palace learn’d to rise,

Again the long fall’n column sought the skies;

The canvass glow’d, beyond e’en nature warm;

The pregnant quarry teem’d with human form.

Till, more unsteady then the southern gale,

Commerce on other shores display’d her sail;

While naught remain’d of all that riches gave,