She flung the Doge’s bridal ring, and married the “Atlantic;”
And spite of all appearances, like the woman in the shoe,
She’s got so many “Young Folks” now she don’t know what to do.
But I must say, I think it strange that thee and Mrs. Spalding,
Whose lives with Calvin’s five-barred creed have been so tightly walled in,
Should quit your Puritanic homes, and take the pains to go
So far, with malice aforethought, to walk in a vain show!
Did Emmons hunt for pictures? was Jonathan Edwards peeping
Into the chambers of imagery with maids for Tammuz weeping?
Ah, well, the times are sadly changed, and I myself am feeling