Neither can you crack a nut.”
Nathaniel Parker Willis was a popular writer of society satire in both prose and verse.
LOVE IN A COTTAGE
They may talk of love in a cottage,
And bowers of trellised vine—
Of nature bewitchingly simple,
And milkmaids half-divine;
They may talk of the pleasure of sleeping
In the shade of a spreading tree,
And a walk in the fields at morning,