For scragging all those old Welsh Harpers!

Pray, never, ere each tuneful doing,

Take a prodigious deal of wooing;

And then sit down to thrum the strain,

As if you’d never rise again—

The least Cecilia-like of things:

Remember that the saint has wings.

I’ve known Miss Strummel pause an hour,

Ere she could “Pluck the Fairest Flower,”

Yet without hesitation, she