We’ll spend the night at dear vingt-un,
Retire at two, and sleep till noon.
Now seated in the social sleigh,
To Haerlem or the Bridge, away;
While frolic joy usurps the hour,
Unaw’d by form’s despotic power;
For though her laws we all obey,
We sometimes love a holiday.
At thy approach, dear winter, too,
The Beaux present themselves to view: