DISSOLUTION—(AS THE ENEMY OF THE LONDON SEASON).

There was a sound of revelry by day,

And England's Capital had gathered then,

Her Beauty and her Masherdom, and gay

Spring's sun shone o'er smart women and swell men;

A thousand shops shone showily; and when

MAY came to Mayfair, FLORA to Pall-Mall,

Shrewd eyes winked hope to eyes which winked again,

And maids heard sounds as of the marriage-bell.