For you can have humps, if you like, on the back,
Without the bad colic and pains that did rack
The female whose spine the best doctors couldn’t mend,
But oh! she invented “the true Grecian bend!”
A “bend” born of suffering truly pathetic,
A “bend” scientific as well as æsthetic.
Now all of you know, I make bold to infer,
The “colic” and “pains” did in Paris occur.
Of course we Americans would not receive
Any fashions but those of imported disease: