O Seraphine!

But after dinner as you doze each e'en,

From your disjointed mutterings I glean

Your mind is running on a crinoline,

O Seraphine!

Oh, let me not appear to speak with spleen—

Yet pause!—nor go to Madame Antonine

To get yourself a—you know what I mean,

O Seraphine!

For if that huge and hideous machine