And thus a welcome, lively guest could pass,

Threading her pleasant way from class to class.

“Her reputation?” - That was like her wit,

And seem’d her manner and her state to fit;

Sometking there was - what, none presumed to say;

Clouds lightly passing on a smiling day, -

Whispers and hints which went from ear to ear,

And mix’d reports no judge on earth could clear.

But of each sex a friendly number press’d

To joyous banquets this alluring guest: