Off to their Continental homes and bowers—
Spain—Paris—Italy—Spa—Baden-Baden.
Dark is the Opera—“in silent tiers;”
Just now in jewelled beauty all ablaze.
How short the flitted season past appears!
Singers, and ballet, too, how short their stays!
Closed are the halls of fashionable shows—
The “R.A.” masterpieces, and the smudges—
“King Charles and Sunday”—“Venus” without clothes,
That shocked the prudish, and amazed the judges.