Dreams of Mabille Balls.
(The famous Moulin Rouge Restaurant and Mabille disappear together from the Champs Elysées this month.)
(RETROSPECTIVE BALLADS.)
(Sung confidentially by the Old “Bohemian Boy.”)
I dreamt that I danced at Mabille balls—
That again at the Cancan I shied:
But to judge from the set that now honoured those walls,
I had far best have Cancan’d outside!
For, spite Jules’s antics, once good as a feast—