Ten Years in Washington / or, Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital as a Woman Sees Them ... to Which Is Added a Full Account of the Life and Death of President James A. Garfield

by Mary Clemmer

Reigns, the sovereign of the scene,

Chasing gloom and courting glee

With the merry tambourine.

Many a form of fairy birth,

Many a Hebe yet unwon;

Wirt, a gem of purest worth,

Lively, laughing Pleasanton,

Vails and Taylor will be there;

Gay Monroe, so débonnaire,

Helen, pleasure’s harbinger,