Round the pink’d rims of crisped Valentine.

Her china-closet, cause of daily care,

For woman’s wonder held her pencill’d ware;

That pictured wealth of China and Japan,

Like its cold mistress, shunn’d the eye of man.

Her neat small room, adorn’d with maiden-taste,

A clipp’d French puppy, first of favourites, graced:

A parrot next, but dead and stuff’d with art;

(For Poll, when living, lost the Lady’s heart,

And then his life; for he was heard to speak