How crowded, since this morn is market-day!

I shall not need to speak. The news will run

Like wild-fire. 'Thousands saw Miranda's flight!'

'T is telegraphed to Paris in a trice.

The Boulevard is one buzz—'Do you believe?

Well, this time, thousands saw Miranda's flight:

You know him, goldsmith in the Place Vendôme.'

In goes the Empress to the Emperor:

'Now—will you hesitate to make disgorge

Your wicked King of Italy his gains,