Japanese skirts do but insult

Our elder instincts, to which Reason

Is nothing more nor less than treason.

Your "muddy weather costume" moves us

No more than satire, which reproves us

Ad nauseam, and for whose rebuff

We never care one pinch of snuff.

No, Ladies HARBERTON and COFFIN.

Your pleading, like the critics' "scoffin"

Touches us not; have we not smiled,