As in last century gowns the swells

To dinner take the evening belles.

And so ’twill be when we are gone,

Fashion’s caprices will go on;

A century hence, what now repels

Will serve to deck the evening belles.

Moonshine, July 31, 1886.

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OFT, IN THE STILLY NIGHT.

Oft, in the stilly Night,