That dear old tune!
Austin Dobson.
Saturday Journal. 1874.
In Re Rondeau.
In corsets laced, in high-heeled shoes,
Too fine a woodland way to choose,
With mincing step and studied strut,
Is this an English Goddess? Tut—
Some masker from the Parley-Voos!
O, Poet! thou of sinewy thews,