Recollections of pink-glowing cheeks, and a girl

Whose fun-loving spell set the house in a whirl,

As her laughter ran riot and touched everywhere,

Till Amanda, the chaperon, with dignified air

And a fine, arching brow, was compelled to unbend

And to follow the frivolous, frolicsome trend

Of a something she knew not—she wasn’t half sure

If she laughed with Louisa or just at her laughter.

But ’tis needless to point all their feminine graces,

Or with blund’ring endeavor to profile their faces,