Blue, dun or spinner.

Scorning (you'll grant me the boon?)

Other folk's gay fly,

Under the willow till June

Sheltered and safe lie;

I shall be after you soon,

I and my May-fly.


"I should be very glad to have a movement started to put an end to the extravagant, unseemly and disedifying length to which ladies in this country have gone in adopting fashions of dress."

Irish Paper.