Should you dress her in fashionable clothes of the kind
Worn now, she’d look “stylish” and have quite an “air.”
Her “bend” is more perfect by far, I declare,
Than that of our ladies so fine and so gay
Who walk in the avenues day after day;
And surely an outline by Nature designed,
Is much the best model, if you are inclined,
Fair lady, to triumph and truly intend
To study as artist the “true Grecian bend.”
A model from Nature! now, here is the question,