The shes were as uneasy as the hes:

It was all heavy there, and nothing led

To anything, but minding Q's and P's;

While every heart was absent, every head

Ran upon "soup, fish, flesh, fowl, tart, and cheese."

Nothing was on the carpet, when there came

This bright announcement:—"Dinner on the table!"

Then wagg'd the tongues, which soon began to frame

A young confusion, like to bees, or Babel,

And each face wore a smile, that quite became,