How, ’neath the nimble petticoat,

Above her fairy shoe is set

The circumvolving zonulet.

And soothly for the lover’s ear

A perfect bliss it is to hear

About her limb so lithe and lank

My Julia’s ankle-bangle clank.

Not rudely tight, for ’twere a sin

To corrugate her dainty skin;

Nor yet so large that it might fare