A Century of Parody and Imitation

by Unknown

PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY.

(TUPPER)

Introductory.

Art thou beautiful, O my daughter, as the budding rose of April?

Are all thy motions music, and is poetry throned in thine eye?

Then hearken unto me; and I will make the bud a fair flower,

I will plant it upon the bank of Elegance, and water it with the water of Cologne;

And in the season it shall 'come out,' yea bloom, the pride of the parterre;

Ladies shall marvel at its beauty, and a Lord shall pluck it at the last.

Of Propriety.