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 my own city, what success it may have met was most largely due 
 to the beauty of the tdhh'an.r, by which it was illustrated. 
 
 These were made by ladies and gentlemen from our society, who 
 never weary of good works ; who ever do them gracefully. 
 
 When the reading resulted in decision for publication of the poem, 
 in book form, the camera 
 
 ■■- Shone o'er fair women and brave men." 
 
 who again came to the author's assistance. And, as result, a series 
 of pictures have been made possible, which— for grace, effectiveness 
 and n-aixi'Dihlann' — the most cunning brush could never have created, 
 without the same models. 
 
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 Lord of the dance ! whose flying footsteps flow 
 So swiftly where— without you— all were slow. 
 Accept the incense that your German pours ; 
 Believe its hearts— as well as waists— are yours: 
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 l'"nini the i-ielily-earved sofa — whnse satin reveals 
 The marks n[' late honors eonferretl hy his heels — 
 And turns u|i the drop-light, a (diuhliy hronze ( 'upid, 
 W lid pull's out his cheeks with a leer far from stupid 
 And seems to deny that it is his vocation 
 To hlnw all the gas in that grand liahitation. 
 
 l'"or the rich and the good in the city all knew 
 No mansion so grand graced the great Avenue. 
 Its front was the hrownest the (piarries could yield, 
 All fretteil and carved ; while a ponderous shield, 
 Hanging o\er Ihe entrance, caused a salaam 
 From each guest to the owner's superb monogram: 
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 Most curious freaks of ohl IMasters in ait, 
 W'liicli [)(>V('rty forced foreign princes to mart; 
 Mytliological, chrssical curios thronged — 
 Poking fun at the modern to whom tliey helonged. 
 Pare tropical plants with rich o(h)rs essaye(l 
 To kill just a sou/iron that almost hetrayed 
 The neighlioring kitchen ; while In I the hall chair. 
 Half-hid, half-hetrayed tlic - Tnwn Tojiirs" laid 
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 How into a case so resplendent was crammed 
 
 What could make one so fervently pray to he d ! 
 
 .\s the great Peter Oleum, who's up with a hound 
 
 And dashes the letter he holds to the ground, 
 
 .Vs he screams at the menial, — " i>y hlank, sir, don't 
 
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 But get out and hid Miss Syhilla come here !" 
 
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 T.\i,L, willowy, cliic — almost painfully fail- — 
 Sj'hilla glides in and dissolves in a. chair, 
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 Her sire stoi)ped short in his walk to and fro ; — 
 "1 do, ^fiss ! And, hang it ! I just want to know 
 The meaning of all tiiis nonsensical stuff, 
 That made you reject such a match as John Ruff; 
 A rising young man, with a million, t)r more : 
 
 And sure to class never mucii less than " 
 
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 Lisped the maiden — '• Why, i)apa, I've struggled in 
 
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 To think of that dude, without muscle, or brain ! 
 You've [ilenty of money ; so surcdy I can 
 Choose, 'stead of a l)ank-hook, to marry — a man'.' 
 
 And I think that mamma " 
 
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 And jerked out his wrath, 'twixt a roar and a 
 
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 " Your mother shall stuff no fool nonsense like this 
 In yo.ur head; and you'd better remember it, Jliss ! 
 Do you know it has cost me full i; 1(1,000— 
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 To marry some (lining, or danciuf^, nuu-liiiicl 
 'A man!' — I suppose you'd prefer to stay siniile 
 I'ntil 1 pick up that yoiniL;' pauper, 'i'oiu •linule'.-' 
 ( )r, ]ierliaps you'd |iretV-r some ohl, urc^y-licai'ded iiuiii, 
 Witli hall-ton oflirass in his face and Ids throat, 
 
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 •• No. papa; In^'s slow; 
 Ihit ('ount Monle-l'"iaseo /.v uolile, you know — 
 A \iseouiit and I'rinec; and his un( les at honu' 
 Are iiepliews-iu-law to the late I'ope of lioinid" 
 
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 ()n his hrow and ji'leameil down on the tip of his 
 
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 Till it flowed like hest imported -laiianese ro(d<ets; 
 .\nd his iuimls — J'tmli ilr iiii<ii.r — souij;lit his own 
 
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 " Well, nohle, or not — I'x'e enough of this cant; 
 Your mother and you leavi' this week I'or — Xahant!" 
 
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 Tnis ^reat Peter Oleum was luonareh, in sooth, 
 Tho' pat<died the roui;li pants, hare the feet of his 
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 I\iii<:j crowned and anuintcd; his sceptre a pen, 
 Dealing ruin, or riches, to all lesser men! 
 In days not remote — this was whispered snl'ducd 
 l'>y l)amc (irundy who never cares, loud, to lie rudi — 
 The mighty P. (Jlcum had come to the city 
 So green lie excited both laughter and pity, 
 'i'ill a great Money liaron, wlio sat at the IJoanl, 
 Had used him most wisely. Then upward he 
 
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 Th' envious asserted, like Jonah's green gourd; 
 Had marched on with stri<les, whose speed much 
 
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 Tliose magical boots, of which Fairy tale tells: 
 And now had been sceptred, — anointed a King, 
 Whose nod was as law, all around the charmed Itingl 
 
 Wliat matter, dear (u'undy, that twenty years gone. 
 Young Peter was grubbing his cornfield forlorn: 
 Nor dreaming — wiien wildest the visions had prest 
 Around tlie liard pillow where lalior found rest — 
 Of one tithe the lionors and riciies in store 
 For the tickle Blind (ioddess to lay at his door? 
 What matter, indeed, that his honest bread came 
 From tiie sweat of a brow all unlaureled by Fame; 
 If his palm were as horny — as shoeless his feet, 
 As those of the beggars now spurned in the street? 
 
 
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 A truce to reviling! The 'I'urk gives you light, 
 In his eloquent axiom: — "W'hal is must he right!" 
 Had nature not smiled on lici' son in his needs, 
 His garden had yielded him still only weeds; 
 Auriferous drops — oleaginous — sweet. 
 Had not clung to his pants and made greasy their 
 
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 Two gents of sharp visagi' and noses acute 
 Had not hored through his soil — and his |ialirncc, 
 
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 Till finally, following swift on the rod, 
 ( )ut guslu'(l the prtroli'Um — to goM i-hanged each 
 
 clod— 
 And jiut in the palm of the woiKh'ring farmer 
 Siudi cash as maile him no contemjitildc charmer! 
 
 Ihit I'eter lia<l hrains, — not ilnjiujr and witty, 
 But the far sterner stuff that ohtains in the city; 
 Spite rustic co(juetries his m'w luck called down, 
 Shut his heart and his pocket and set out for town. 
 He stared ahout I'.road street, he stalked ahout New; 
 He heard many things, l)ut forgot very few. 
 While stock-jobbing swell and imuuiculate clerk 
 All chaffed the new comer, those f)rains were at work. 
 And a crisis might come; for I'etei- had heard, 
 In his innocent rambles, one talisman word. 
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 i'.ut talked for ten minutes, wlu-n business was 
 
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 Thev were strangers next day when they met at 
 
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 P)Ut Peter bought Erie. The corner was floored! 
 'Tis needless to trace h<iw, from that very hour, 
 He proved the old proverb that '•Knowledge is 
 
 power": 
 How lie bulli<Ml the I'.ulls and was bearish to Bears: 
 liuw he sold corporatiuns, by buying their shares: 
 How he jiloddcd by <lay and schemed sleepless by 
 
 night, 
 To grind from the widnw her uttermost mite, 
 Or crush her male c-iiildrcn in pitiless war. 
 As he rolled on to wealth in his Juggernaut car! 
 For both are well paid-for — hard labor, hard knocks: 
 He is eminent now in the circles of stocks; 
 His name, as Director, none other outranks, 
 Where the Nation has built up unnational banks. 
 In fine, ho improves on the Midas of old 
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 With tlii' tirst udlilcii dawn of auril'enius life, 
 Peter Oleum had (dioseu a ruddy youuti' wife, 
 f'ity-l)red and aecomjjlished; with various talents — 
 Tlie best, tliat in bank she'd a notable balanee. 
 
 'riuiuiili unt ol' llie deepest of azurc they said — 
 
 Uieh ill I she had surely, full-throbbing and red; 
 
 Anil the lover thought eloquent answer was ;;iven. 
 When she ]irayed to her l''atlier — and mother— in 
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 I>ut idses will pale in the ruddiest cheeks. 
 Mis. ( )leurn had ])i(ived a sad scold, ore the weeks 
 ( )!' the honeyinoiin waneil; and the j^rooni all forlorn 
 Learned, as faded the petal, iieneath lurkecl the 
 
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 For as weeks rolled to months, at the \-ery least 
 
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 Founil — no Socrates — he had wedded Xanli|ipel 
 VtwX not to those dainty l-'our Hundred, or so, 
 Whom we called ••the World. ■' .lid this skeh'ton 
 
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 I'rcfcrriiig liis Itottle to family jars; 
 
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 Special aversion: l)et liigii on his ruljbor; 
 \\'liile Maihune rolle<l round in her coacli and lier 
 
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 Strewing literally cloying-swcet smiles 'bout her 
 
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 Spent thousands on jewels and hundreds on frocks, 
 'Xeath which, like the Spartan, she laced down the 
 
 fox ! 
 .\ud envious observers declared that the loves 
 Of Midas and wife shamed the real turtle doves! 
 Their union was blessed with one single pledge — 
 All babies are angels, their mothers allege — 
 lUit it really did seem that the spirit of strife 
 Was laid, for the time, by this new little life; 
 And that fountain of i'eace. misconception had 
 
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 Flowed free, till she grew old enough to be — Hoggedl 
 
 r>ut babies will grow — their sweet novelty wane. 
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 And — strangely contrary — as tighter she drew 
 The zone "Iwut her waist, the more tiesliy he grew; 
 
 
 
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 And, still more to shock her vexed vision appalled, 
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 'Trs s}iecially ours, in these days of 'I'ruth, 
 To nurtui-e most lovint;iy feminine youth; 
 'I'o endue them wjtli virtues resplendent and rare, 
 In theii- days of short dresses and dark-colored hair. 
 ()! hlessed are we, who avoid all (|uicksan<ls 
 That wreck these frail vessels in less favored lands! 
 How proudly ]ioint we to those monuuuTits grand — 
 As lasting as l)rass shall their nuMuory stand! — 
 And vaunt that calm lieasou — I'liilosopliy rules 
 The theories .sound of our finisiiing schools! 
 What wonder that X'ii-tiU' tlu're rigidly walks: 
 That Science appals not when Henry (ieorge talks! 
 That meekest of maidens, in hlazers ami hoots, 
 I'uck-like, span the glohe hy the sixty-day routes; 
 Place over flirtation aiid fast hest young man 
 An essay on cooking, or home-life Japan! 
 What wonder that women of soul and of mind 
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 Tliat showy inanity, aimless display 
 And cmiitiness, gaudily gilt, stalk away 
 From the face of that system, so V)arren of fools — 
 So peerlessly pure! — our finishing schools. 
 Who dare call them hot-beds of vicious unrest — 
 Forcing-houses, whence Fashion alone is expressed? 
 Away witli such scoffer! How <lare he assert 
 That a lesson to sing means a lesson to Hirt? 
 IIow dare he complain, when e.\i)erience chides, 
 None arc trained vqi as wives — but only for brides? 
 That often tlii^ "l)ig game," for which they lay wait. 
 Drops into tlie trap from inipureness of bait? 
 Awav with such slanders! Society's worth 
 Will strangle them ever, as soon as their birth! 
 
 So, little Sybilla had teethed; had gone through 
 All troubles girl children in cities must do: 
 Survived all the perils of park-crossing talks, 
 When nurse met police, in their afternoon walks: 
 Safe rdunded the heaiUands of area stairs 
 When Bridget discussed all her mistress' o/((/,7n 
 With open-eyed Mary, who gave, in return. 
 Some sweet parlor scandals that ma<le her ears burn! 
 She had passed that soft age, when a nurse could 
 
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 Hai] striiii'iiU'il, liad kick<'il mul lind torn licr hair 
 In nursery tliralilum, until licr twclt'lli ycai- 
 Signed a haj>iiy release; lei her little sonl vannt 
 Desires unripe to -a Jiiuikc iioiircnKiiitr. 
 
 l'\)Ui- yeai-s; and Syhilla had hlcnidined liei' hail' 
 And was sent, for last polish, tu Madame Iluniiir; 
 And with her a sponn and a fork, na|ikin ring. 
 Ten tiiw(ds, a Uihle; in short, everything 
 'i'luit hody, or soul, nf a girl ( hild can need 
 I'or h'arning to marry, or learning tu i-ead — 
 At that age whi(di King Siddimm leaves us .-i hiank. 
 When she's too young \\>v ilrhnl. \<u\ tiMxdd tu spank! 
 
 ^'et seeds, in sueh sdil, eaidy wither, or shoot 
 Into growth far ontstripjiing the dull ])arent root; 
 While it often nuiy lui]i that the rankest and wmst 
 Of lierital traits grow tiie fastest — and tir.sti 
 .\nd a full-hlown bloom of tin's foreiug was seen, 
 When the girl returned tinished, and turning nine- 
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 Her voiee was an alto, fidl-toned and delieious; 
 Her metliod, in rlKnison. a shade meretrieious; 
 She painted divinely — on ehina, not elieeks — 
 And could draw, in sauee-erayou — one head in three 
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 And essayed in oils, now and tlieii — from tiie fiatl 
 She doted on Swinburne, all Saltus she knew 
 And "Robert Elsmere '" li.id run rapidly through: 
 But seissors and needle to iier had no point, 
 And a spare-rib she never eould tell from a Joint. 
 Yet, in (h'ess and in daucini:, in curtsev or faint — 
 She'd the grace of a Xaiad — the soul of a saint! 
 
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 An<l mellow mui'mur, to her pearly feet, 
 Rises fair Naliant — i-mk-embrasured — green — 
 And n'cr their glecMune babble smiles serene. 
 W'litn the last gorgeous tints of fading day 
 (lotlic in one glow the bosom of her bay — 
 .\mid tlieir shifting sheen, she lies at rest, 
 A modest emerald on tiu'ir heaving breast! 
 In ages gone — ere yet the woodman's stroke 
 Had ('(dioed there — from 'neatli the giant oak 
 On yonder point, the gaudy bii-ch canoe 
 Shot from the sands and clave the waters through; 
 While tlie young savage, with his kiuglj' mien, 
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 And wiiere yon (liff so deeply throws its shade. 
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 Decked but with gems tlie loving billows gavel 
 
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 Shimmered tlie sea like dying dol]>iiin's breast, 
 
 As at her feet he laid tiie linny sjioil — 
 
 One smile rewarding all bis sunny toil — 
 
 May not von pine ba\c caught their murmured 
 
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 And nddded soft ajipruval with his Imuglis'.' 
 
 'idiis dell eud)osiims many a circled grave 
 
 Where slee}) unheeding, s(|ua\v, jiapponse and brave, 
 
 <^uiet in restbeneatii that i lei-n turf, — 
 
 Lulled by the song of immemorial surf! 
 
 On that bold eri'st — tVtr ages standing guard. 
 
 A lioary sentinel, above the sward — 
 
 As the young moon. Ileec(>-(da<l. upon her way 
 
 Moved silver-shod across the mii'rdrecl liay. 
 
 ()ften the age(l hunter may have lain 
 
 To join the chase, in I'everie, again! 
 
 In later days hied young T. Totum there, 
 To chase and " cat(di his wild goat by the hair'" 
 Now doth he twirl his caiu'. 'neatb nounday sun; 
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 Not kuowiiis " Locksley," still loves Ocean Hall! 
 
 No tough hcau-errant is this arrant swell; 
 
 if Xahant liores, The Beach will do as well; 
 
 And whiii the maidens tire of his prattle. 
 
 Moves where the dismal dowagers do hattle! 
 
 A youth unHt for treason, or sedition; 
 
 Tn fact, a pocket English edition — 
 
 Such as The Ilnb gets up in imitation 
 
 Of tiiat sure-footed and side-whiskered nation. 
 
 Vet, uiiw all shorn of its (diarm of yore, 
 
 Most mixlern youth vote fair Xahant a bore; 
 
 Aiul seek those sands, where added palpitation 
 
 Rewards, when belles strive to "outstrip creation! 
 
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 A iTi.i. moon now steals up beyond the sea. 
 To wash a world in silvered purity, 
 As .lingle writes his candle brief away, 
 In ■• correspondence " for his weekly pay: 
 Tells tales of romance, gossip and toilette — 
 Of scandal just a shade the raciest yet — 
 I'rys into secrets of each belle's past life, 
 Or hints the ruin of some worthy wife; 
 Will praise the sea, or patronize the air; 
 For discount, even puff the hotel fare! 
 
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 <)t' sueli ])ro(i;ressive inodeni .loiifiialist — 
 iVll to be sea)iiie(l, witli ca<;er iioil ami i;rin, 
 When next morn Fashion takes the paper in! 
 I'^or Jingle — poet, beau, and lover, too — 
 Writes fashion letters for the " Daily \'ie\v "; 
 l'"in(ling them j)ay far i)etter, in these times, 
 Than noljlest epic, or most caustic rliymes. 
 Why linger here, if bills be jirompt and high? 
 The very sim]>lest, yet most aiicieul — why : 
 Tom .lingle loves Syl)illa, rich as lair. 
 Who brav(>s the boredom of Nabaut this yeai' : 
 And tliat Italian, with the liyphened name, 
 Cut Xarragansett, just because she came ! 
 'i'om half sus]iecte<l that this Cdunt's great rank 
 Was self-created : and lie knows the bank 
 Holds his high name a deal l)elow that rate. 
 The ''Swell Set " values his unreal estatel 
 
 His letter done. Tom jiaced the narrow den 
 To which sea-inns conilcmn unnuiteil men; 
 Scanned the camp-bed, the towel small ami brown — 
 The pitcher cracked — wisbeil he weic back in 
 
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 When sudden, on the salty-fresh night air 
 Sybilla's voice was wafted, sweet and (dear. 
 
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 Heard the foreigner's lips drop the word — "Com- 
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 or •■ W<iiiian's Ilaiiil and Heart" the echoes reaeli 
 
 Toiu's iiwii in eadence from the distant beaeli: 
 
 But all the notes in iliscord on him twang, 
 
 I'^or with the lady Count Fiasco sang; 
 
 And Tom well knew, what singing teachers tell — 
 
 The voice may "give," before it "takes the swell"! 
 
 TiiK "Smart Set" now has so gregarious grown. 
 That Browne can't bathe sweet Mrs. Smith alone. 
 Does he affect her? Then before the start he 
 Must nuike his peace, by making up a party! 
 As for a dog-cart thro' the woods till late, 
 This modern mania has (piite scaled its fate. 
 Safety in numl)ers is the I'ule to-(biy 
 That holds all ]ilans for pleasure under sway, 
 Till Fashion's fad at Noah e'en must fling 
 For taking " two of each created tiling," 
 Instead of asking parties to eml)ark 
 .\nd yaclit to Ararat upon his.\i-k! 
 In fact, so high does jiarty-spirit run, 
 That if there is any courting to be done — 
 Best keep it dark; for, surely as detected, 
 A " party " for the same will be selected! 
 So, if statistics in the future show- 
 That, yearly, larger spinsters' nund)ers grow — 
 
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 W'lien cruel custom killeil tlie tetc-a-liic! 
 
 I'\)iled 1)}' this fad, Tdin .linnk' won no word 
 
 With fair Sybilla, save 'mid Fashion's herd; 
 
 Yet, noted oft with her — howe'er it chanced — 
 
 The little Count in converse deep liad ]iranced 
 
 Throu<ili bosky wood-ways, once to iiim well known; 
 
 Or strolled by moonlifiht, always (|uitc alone I 
 
 Till, said the gossips, surely there must he 
 
 Between that coujile. im fait nrriiiiijill. 
 
 In heart Tom raficd; and swore his only task 
 
 Should he that swarthy rival to unmask; 
 
 Mead Sunday ])a])ers, where hold barbers j)laycd 
 
 The beau to belles, in social nnis(|Ucrade; 
 
 Went oft to town on hasty little trips, 
 
 Met keen-nosed men and treated free to "nij)s:" 
 
 Wrote letters, till they threatcnc(l writer's cramps. 
 
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 Ukii.liant the ball, as such bidls always go: — 
 i''lirtatiiin — jiunch — Muall talk — the gay galop; 
 Tough old campaigners; l>eaux and belles unripe; 
 All varying versions of the social type — 
 Stout matrons, pilumed and Ihishing diamonds great: 
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 (ilili <irmii>s of crow-clad youth, with naught to 
 
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 111 one a ditl'ereiice t'roiii his hrother lieau; 
 And lilase men, (juite knowing as to points 
 ( )1' woman flesh — with dimples in its joints: 
 A general stufly, perfumed atmosphere 
 That battles e'en the vigorous sea air. 
 White shoulders gleam and palpitating bust 
 Leans on strange vest, with strangely gen'rous 
 
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 I'll re eyes look love to eyes a shade bloodshot, 
 Xor Wdiider if it be the wine, or what? 
 
 Mark well yon virgin — wise, or foolish she? — 
 Who trims her lamp so near to nudity; 
 Whose rounded curves seem striving still to teach 
 A i>lainer lesson than the bathing beach; 
 A costume fitting well for Fashion's — birth. 
 Yet loud proclaiming figure set by — Worth! 
 Could she have seen it, what a jealous sigh had 
 Escaped the breast of every envious Dryad; 
 While, shocked until near ready for a faint. 
 The Indian maid had blushed, in spite of paint! 
 Might not the Graces let their mantles rest 
 On such fair shoulders that could liear them best? 
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 llanl liaiiilu-a|i|ii'i| liy ( iiiarilsniaii's unilnnn — 
 
 Willi iicvci' won amid tlic liattlc's llasli 
 
 'I'lic ri<^lit 1,(1 wear a tcrrililc iiinustaclicl 
 
 Still, liu})py thought ! Where wit is nut of jdiut, 
 
 l>y wearing it he'd give eacdi piirase a [idinll 
 
 Ki'Versed Aeliilles, hit in softest jiai-t, 
 
 IleM ape the ivplc with all his little heart; 
 
 i-'.iiilirai-e the hall — Minervas all. ruin Marte, 
 
 And fall in love, at once, with all the partyl 
 
 {•'or lioots invited — rather than for hrain — 
 
 'i'iio' slow, he hajis to eat(di the fastest ti'ainl 
 
 A seuliitor might he wcdl eonlcnt to ga/.e 
 
 On that tall girl heneath ihe lamplight's hla/e. 
 
 Don't hlame her. if too well she seems to know 
 
 What every hour her mii-ror tells is so: 
 
 For vanity, "luong all the faidts so human. 
 
 We hest excaise, when in a — jiretty — woman. 
 
 Iler/'orfe is style; and one great point is this — 
 
 She's queened it in our great metropolis: 
 
 Nor has she toured in Kurope (piite in vain. 
 
 Whom Paris named la helle Amn-icainc: 
 
 And then, she stai'tled hondon. some years since. 
 
 By equal notice from the press and — i'rincel 
 
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 YuiiUfi Hies, wlio loiiii' liavc " sii^ar " sorely lacked:- 
 Fur. wliilc till- inaiil licrsclf is slinily sweet, 
 Ili-i- latlier"s wiiiidruus "sdlid" on tlie street. 
 Ask (if tliese youtli. eiidui-iuii of all toil — 
 Who'd hore tiieniselves. in hoj)e of" '' ritrikinji oil "- 
 Whom debt, nor doubt, nor danfjer e'er aj)|)als. 
 When seekinji "tips" on social "puts and calls." 
 Still, placid she, with no inaninia to warn her 
 They seek for plums, like hungry little Hornerl 
 
 In strongest contrast, from the point of taste, 
 .\ young-old spinster in a baby waist! 
 Sad 'twere, alas! uncanonized should go 
 Meek saint as she, 'mid sinners here below; 
 Who'd lead her converts 'neath the aisle-like trees 
 .\nd strive to l)ring them, p(>ccant, to their knees; 
 To stri]i from back of every bold, bad flirt 
 His garb of guile that (dings like Nessus" shirt! 
 Foremost of all who love their fellow men, 
 The clerkly .\ngel for her nibs fresh pen! 
 
 ^'ond(■r a maiden — fi-esli from the Anne.\ — 
 .\ dizzy group with problems seems to vex; 
 .Vlludes to science and the Azure Mystery, 
 Or lightly skips from Sophocles to history; 
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 Or i»laci(l prate!^ political t'connmy. 
 
 Short haired, with glasses and a wondrous store 
 
 Of lialf-forgotten and eeeentric lore, 
 
 She drops qnotations like that tallied maid, 
 
 Who spluttered toads with every word she said. 
 
 Ah, me! Who takes such virgin to his lireast, 
 
 Must, like the wicked. ho|)e to have no resti 
 
 />;>;/■, such the hall: a feast of soul ami reason 
 That stereotypes on every sunimci' season. 
 
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 SviuiJ.A strolls up slowly from the beach. 
 With clH'ck whose Idoom has rohhed some early peach : 
 While the meek violet, that half-hidden lies, 
 Might catch new color from her candid eyes. 
 Her jiretty jtrolile, I'hidian in its lines, 
 No seam of trouljle in its curves contines. 
 She walks a queen; she smiles a simi)le maid — 
 The lilies of the held not so arrayed. 
 All women toil, in this drear world below; 
 And how she spins, the German dancers know. 
 Is she a Hirt? Perhaps an easy guess 
 Might make her more, but surely nothing less; 
 Merry, yet placid; compound sweetly quaint — 
 A tender Tom-boy, grafted on a Saint! 
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 W'iiirli, tani^led once, sliall ne'er ])e loosed again. 
 .Iin<;;le, beware! For deft in<leed should be 
 'I'he hand that ties the knot for such as she! 
 
 .More killinti now tiie |iaee liegins to grow: 
 
 " Deinnition moist " the ruddy dancers glow; 
 
 'Pill girls, attacked with German on the l)rain, 
 
 Declare they do not care to dance again, 
 
 Till in the cramped spare space there is begun 
 
 A desiccated sort of ('otillnu: 
 
 While great T. Totum — wondrous artist he. 
 
 Who's led the German from his infancy! — 
 
 Believes 'tis swell to seem a shade hhixt'. 
 
 And vows he really doesn't think 'twill pay; 
 
 Wlien all well know you could not for a million 
 
 lUiy out iiis chance to lead that same cotillion. 
 
 Still they entreat; at last he condescends, 
 
 .Villi to the dance his crowning pri'sence lends. 
 
 Ciiairs (|uick arranged, the great man rank bestows 
 
 By placing couples as his favor goes; 
 
 And indicates, by nod of lordly grace, 
 
 Svbilla an<l the Count have second place. 
 
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 l'"(ii-eeil hy his lips, with luweriiiu- eyes the while; 
 
 Anil all — who kn<iw the Count is <lee|ily smitten — 
 
 llei^in to \von<ler if he's had the mitten. 
 
 Still, near Sylnlla, putting in her service — 
 
 Constant he whiids as were he horn a Dervise: 
 
 And — t'arnin^' pleasure as the ploughman hread — 
 
 Now moj)s his hrow and now his classic head. 
 
 I'^ive feet, at least, this nohle stands erect; 
 
 llis hrow with snows of lifty winters llecked — 
 
 Yi'l strives with her the tiiddiest .uiide to <lo 
 
 .\nd. nioi-e hy mind than matter, pulls her tliroU!j;h' 
 
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 (Ion of the weed! whose countless altars iilow, 
 l''rom morn till niiduiuht, in these realms helow. 
 Let thy hlest presence on thy slave descend 
 .\nd to his musiuiis rainhow tiiitiuLis lend' 
 Crant, ohi great Spii'it of Virginia's weed! 
 Thy vot'ry signs that he who iiins may read: 
 Lend him such lines, jis ni'"er before he wrote 
 .\ud. when he draws on Song — endorse his note! 
 I'^tr, as thy clouds of incense slowly rise, 
 One rosy vision, o'er another Hies; 
 All vainly clasped, as was that cloud of yore, 
 W'lien Ixion voted vapiil loves — a boi-e! 
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 And leaves his rich rival for dinner ! 
 
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 lie lilcw tlic siiKjke-wroatlis lliro' his classic nose 
 And (Ircained of bliss, alasl too llcetiiig far; 
 And mourned how brief his twenty-cent cigar! 
 Sudden lie hurled its stump the wiiulow through: 
 SeeuuMJ (|uite awake, altlmugli 'twas long past two 
 His facile pencil seized, with feverish haste, 
 Aiul on llie pad tliese ten<h'r couplets traced: — 
 
 Beauties there were at the ball, to-night; 
 
 Beauties with ])owder, ])atch and jtaint; 
 Dark eyes swam in their liquid liglit — 
 
 Bine eyes |)lead, like tlie pictured Saint; 
 
 And the giddy notes of the gay <ialoi> 
 
 Floated, then fled, thro' the perfumed air. 
 
 Seldom. I ween, on this earth below, 
 Moitais arc Idest witli a scene so fair! 
 
 .\nd I stood by, in haif-di-eaming trance. 
 Striving to read from the future's Ijook : 
 
 Sad, when she passed me witii transient glance- 
 Thrilling M'ith love at each lengthened look; 
 
 Till my soul took wings frt)m its prison clay 
 .Vnd Hoatcd in Fancy's realms above; 
 
 Wiiile tiu' hand of IIoj>e swept the notes away 
 That Doubt liad dashed in the beams of Love 
 
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 Alone witli my lancics, Imt all is well; 
 
 C'ertaint}' \vhis})ers, amunj;' them all — 
 ]\rine alone is \a htlh' ilcs hcllcxl 
 
 Then the yonn<;- ]i(iet did the alisnrdest of thin<;s; 
 .)um])ed out of liis eliair, cut three hiijli pijieon-wings; 
 Rushed to the cracked mirror and loviusijly t;ay.ed 
 At his face, on whicdi triumphant l]aji[iiness hla/.e(l; 
 Then sat down tjuieseent and drew diaf;rams 
 Of wedding cards, garnislicd with huge monograms, 
 Where dys])eptie, c()nsum])ti\-e, or bloated to see, 
 The S was e'er (dosely emhraced hy a T. 
 
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 Thk Gernuiu had ended. The Count and the nuiid 
 Had to a dark end of the portico strayed, 
 Where Tom had — |ierha|is there directed hy Fate — 
 Tipped a chair hack, to mope, tho' the hour was late; 
 And strange things he heai-d, tho' he nothing could 
 
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 Like his much-abused lunnesake of Old Coventry. 
 The girl was low pleading — he jilainly heard, 
 Tho' he shut up hot!) ears, as he later averred — 
 For return of some letters she'd thoughtlessly sent; 
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 In plirase all tdo tenderly careless, he said — 
 And if tliey were shown great scandal would grow: 
 lie iia.l tiie whip-hand;— that she might as well know. 
 And Tom — raging impotent — chilled hy surprise — 
 Heard the foreigner's lips drop the word — •• Compro- 
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 Insulted, indignant, hut helpless to act, 
 Sybilla defended her name, thus attacked; 
 Then, once more low pK-aded — as wronged woman 
 
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 That he'd not play tiic scoundrel, hut try and he 
 
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 He argued, |)ersuaded: hut swore to the last 
 Tliat licr lime for refusal was certainly past; 
 lUit, as she now acted, he vowed that he'd rather 
 Sell her notes and his silence, for cash, to her father 
 
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 And towering high o'er tiie creature so small, 
 Defied, lashed, despised and then dared him do all 
 He had threatened. And in her soft voice was a ring 
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 All 'twixt tljciii. ill fiiturc, was utterly ilfa<l. 
 
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 l')Ut, niuiiidy u|Min his hluc niusiu); there hreaks 
 
 A ji;ras|i on his i-nllar: liis knee sudden shakes. 
 
 .\s .linjile junijis dut iVoin the >;l(Mini. ami demands 
 
 Thiise letters at once shall he ]ilaeed in his handsl 
 
 Ikit raye and rejection ih' Italian now iiervecj. 
 
 .\nd from his straiji'ht |iurpose he would not he 
 
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 The h'tlers were liis: in this country was law. 
 To hel|) e"en the I'ascal whose case shows no flaw: 
 Her father sliould pony up, liherally pay — 
 Or he'd puldish her letters, the very next day I 
 Till T(un — with a twitch in his hicej)s severe 
 To hreak all thi' hones of the cad. then and there — 
 Controlled his inijuilse and slow-whispered each 
 
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 That Count Monte-Fiasco /(«.s' sailed for this shore, 
 As Special Knvoy: and for one matter more — 
 Concerninji those diamonds his valet " 
 
 A yell. 
 Like l>ante couceivecl lur the tortured in hell, 
 iinike out on the curdliuij; t-ar of the ni<;ht. 
 .\s (piitk Hashed the n;l(.am of a da<;<icr-l)lade hrighl . 
 Sent straight at TonTs heart! Hut the college athlete 
 Called on his old training the gesture to meet; — 
 To prove that time given lawn-tennis — foot-hall — 
 Was not wholly wasted, jierhaps, after all. 
 <iuick-dodging. he pinioned his foe in a trice: 
 Ilis left elutched tjie tiir(iat:his riglit liand like a 
 
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 (iripjied the wrist of the other with clami) so severe 
 Tliat the knife dropped unused, as he dance<l in the 
 
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 "(^uick! give me tiiose lettersl " Tom growleil; and 
 
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 (irew closer, until iiis poor foe. with a gasp, 
 Reached into his l)osom and sullenly drew 
 Out neat little letters, tight-rihhoned in hlue! 
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 And kick " 
 
 Tiien lie jiaused. He was standinu alone. 
 With a coat in his hand. 
 
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 'I'hk Cluireh of St. I'lntus is crowded and janinicd. 
 Stout nnitrons, luait' sinners and drliHtdiilis ci-ainined, 
 
 in a iKilr hii;li I'ashioneil and holy. 
 .\nd the president Tries! has just mounted his 
 
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 With an ett'ort, because he's so very Hii;h ('hundi. 
 
 -Vnd his figure's a shade roly-jioly! 
 
 'Pile deej) diapason so i-irhly rolls out 
 
 From the organ, it leaves one a trille in doubt 
 
 ]f a jtsalni, or a xoiki 's intendeil, 
 I'ntil the Soprano — with voice full of tears — 
 Sings a theme slightly changed from Sir A.'s " Cou- 
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 And a i)rayer is began as 'tis ended. 
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 TluTf's a sliiiiinicr of silk and a soughiiifj; of sighs, 
 As tlic Reverend Doctor now presses his ej'es 
 
 With a rnftie of superfine eanil)rif: 
 W'iiilc an atmosphere highbred and holy and sweet 
 i'"ioats up from the sinners who kneel at his feet, 
 
 But fail when essaying the same trick. 
 
 ( )nc couple sits stiff in the stateliest pew, 
 W'itii rich velvet cushions of cardinal hue, 
 
 Anil massive prayer books, nW.omcs; 
 Vi>v old Peter Oleum, tiiough master of stocks, 
 ( )f water-front stores and the brownest stone blocks. 
 
 Still thinks that I'eligion might — pay! 
 
 And Madame is eyeing tiiat lady in scarlet — 
 Not Original Sin in ///"/ color they snarl at, 
 
 Hut very nnich later edition; 
 And — wondei'ing whence in the world came that 
 
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 With all the piltMl ])iuk jjassamenterie on it — 
 
 T'uts up a liriel'-murmured jietition. 
 
 As fair young Sybilla, — the ju'lde of that jjew 
 And the whole congregation assembled there, too — 
 Sweeps up tlu' broad aisle with a rustle; 
 
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 And shows a costiinu\ IVcsli ini])(>i'tcil fVnni Wdrtli. 
 Tliat strangles all hope of her rivals at hirtli — 
 With close-clinginj;- lulils ami no laistiel 
 
 'i1icn eyes, male ami female, all turn from the 
 
 i'ricst 
 On suggested round eurves of her figure to feast, 
 While elhow seeks elhow most knowing; 
 For the Season's hegun and the "Swell Set" all 
 
 kmiws 
 ■j'hat she's to he .Mrs. .hdin liiill'. ere its elose — 
 
 -Vnd none else has a ghdst of a showiiigl 
 
 lUit, when those good Christians — all purilied, 
 
 rlean — 
 Stream out from the edilii-e, making one sheen 
 
 Of satin and sahlc and feather. 
 The gossips, wise nodding and whispering, sec 
 ller pauper old l.eau of last season and she 
 Walk the .\ venue calmly together! 
 
 But young Mr. iJulf. witli liis and)le and grin, 
 Walks solemnly 1 le witii her mother — goes in 
 
 As meek as a Saint, if a sinner; 
 While .Jingle — with never a cloud on his hrow — 
 Stops short of tlie ste)i, with an ■■(iii revnir" how, 
 
 And leaves his rich rival for diniu-r! 
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 There is tlunnler ami wrath in the air; and the eye 
 In the head of tliat house sullen lightnings lets fly; 
 W'liilc the silver and glass and the servants, dismissed 
 From the hoard, trcmhle now as he hrings down his 
 
 fist. 
 Poor Madame is dissolved in a cyclone of sighs; 
 Svhilla has risen, with war in her eyes; 
 While, 'mid all tlie storm, that impassive .lolin Ruff 
 Stands soft, liutfv, seal-like — a regular muff! 
 
 What storm has caused weather so rosy to cloud. 
 Mid smashing of glass — and proprieties — loud? 
 The dinner was perfect, from Blue Points to fruit; 
 The service delightful; the champagne was Brut; 
 >[adeira and Tokay and other rare wine — 
 Unlike the host's feeling — seemed specially fine; 
 While cafr a la Tnnjuc, with rock syrup and grounds, 
 Had won a swift bow-string, where that fad abounds. 
 Sybilla luid risen, at sign from mamma 
 To leave the two men to post-prandial cigar. 
 And smiling John PntV had just ambled before 
 The ladies, to open the carved rosewood door. 
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 15a(le the ladies remain: and pluiiiju'd full in the 
 
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 That had caused the ehureli gossips, at noon, so 
 
 niiudi ehatter; 
 Said 'twas jn'oper as i)lain, that Sybilla had learned 
 The worth of his wishes since she had returned 
 I'^i'oni Xahant, aftci' (indiiig the Count was a sham 
 
 And penny-a-liners were not worth a 1 
 
 And so, as there intervened obstacles none. 
 He'd ])ledge their betrothal and welcome — a son! 
 But the girl quick broke in: — 
 
 ■■ Why, papa! Dcju't you see 
 How your words shock propriety — nuunma — and me? 
 
 And as for Mr. Ruff, tho' an excellent ■friend, 
 
 I tiild him last June, all else 'twixt us must end. 
 Indeed, I respect him and like — but ()! dear! 
 Not one other word on this subject I'll hearl " 
 
 Then — his wine all turned acid, in social ferment — 
 
 Old Peter's nose glowed 'ncatli his bushy Vtrows bent; 
 
 And the family tempest, so often rehearsed, 
 
 In violence greater than ever outburst: — 
 
 He had toiled and had labored, like slave most abject. 
 
 To buy her high station — the great world's respect! 
 
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 Spent thousands on tliousands to linish her fine 
 
 And fit as society's leader to sjiine. 
 
 Tlie lover in c|uestion — slow stroking his chin, 
 
 Stood vacuous, wordless, with meaningless grin; 
 
 While the tears of the mother, the fast-rising ire 
 
 In Sybilla's eyes added fuel to fire. 
 
 Peter pounded the tal)le; with coarse oatli he swore 
 
 That the girl should obey, or be turned fi-om his door! 
 
 She quietly answered: 
 
 '•Tliis subject must cease. 
 
 'Tis silly — insulting. I'll go, if you please!" 
 
 But Peter strode (juick 'fore the girl; seized her wrist 
 
 In no gentle grasp, as he furious hissed: — 
 
 " I will be (>I)eyed! Why, j-oi; minx, there's no use 
 
 To dare and defy me! No sort of excuse 
 
 For such curseil disobe " 
 
 But she, in defence 
 
 Freed her hand: tlirust it quick in her bosom; and 
 
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 Drew out a soiletl paper and held 'fore tlie eyes 
 That now from her father's head l)ulged in surprise. 
 "Excuse enough!'' — cried she — " if I were still sin- 
 
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 l)Ut let tiiis suttice — I'm Mrs. Tom .liugie!" 
 
 With cheeks royal purple, with breath like a snore, 
 Peter Oleum once staggered — fell prone to the Hnor. 
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 Poured rnw livanily in him; tlicii Ikh-c iiiiii to lied. 
 Where highest priced Doctor and costliest drug 
 
 For days, with the D . lor his sonl, had a tug. 
 
 And. by day and hy night, sleepless, gentle of hand, 
 Syhilla sat hy.— hathed his hrow — softly fanned; 
 Sniootlie(l his ever hot itilhiw — gave |iotioii and ])ill; 
 liilter Idaining the while that inlnTited will 
 W'hiidi — roust'd hy injustice and tyrannous taunt 
 To rehidliou — had hi-ought on this nuip fiiiidriiijiiiit : 
 While hei' mother hemoaiied. wej)t — fainted. .\nd 
 
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 'idle hardened old sinner grew hotter again; 
 'i'ill one <liiy, to the I)<ictor's — unuttered — surju-ise, 
 \'erv weak, hut (piite saucdy. he (i|)ened his eyes. 
 l>ut no sooner u})on the fair, l)owed head they fell. 
 Than they glowed with a light less of healtli tlum of 
 
 hell; 
 And the feelile voice liissed; — 
 
 " (io! I'or never again 
 Will 1 look on your face. *ioI for pleading is vain I" 
 The kneeling girl shuddi/red; ludf-sobbcd; — "(), for- 
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 Dear papa, and we'll worship you long as we live! " 
 " Forgive? " he gasped — " should T the're three never 
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 At this door, the servant siisiU kiek him down stairs 
 So, take yourself off ! Conie and follow my hearse 
 And think, 'stead of millions, 1 left you — mycursel' 
 
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 Rest, haby — sleep 1 
 
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 MiitJier-love watehes tiiy shnnher so deep! 
 Notliinii' seems hitter when baliy is bye — 
 Rest, precious babel 
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 Sleep, darliiifi, sleep! 
 
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 I'apa is cdniinii' with kisses so sweet, 
 Love's guardian angels all sorrows defy — 
 Rest, })recious babe — 
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 'i'lius did theyouiii;- inotlier, wliile l)aliy soft slept, 
 Sin;i,' low, while her lieart and her voiee only we})!; 
 The wail face hetrayin<i- siu-h struggles as dry 
 After long, bitter failure, all tears from the eye: — 
 Sucdi as leave the sonl arid ; the Itrain as a bank 
 On whiidi eoninionplace drafts are dishonored and 
 
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 Pale, thinner, ill-dressed ; with her slim, dainty 
 
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 Showing marks of grim Poverty's ceaseless de- 
 mands — 
 Where pricked by Necessity's needle keen point, 
 Or seared by that nil-stove, so much out of joint; 
 On which — now loud humming with cheery home 
 
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 That mocked bare discomfort that shnw^^d all 
 
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 To respectable poverty, just the last thingi 
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 Plied eagerly earnest, her hriisli on the plate, 
 Last essay of Hope to propitiate Fate! 
 l-'or Sybilla'd as vainly as eagerly tried 
 To use, as poor wife, those things taught the hride ; 
 Had painted great piles of good ehina, <[uite well 
 Knougli for friend's gift, but (oo hadly to sell. 
 W'liere cold, liiut-faced eritics hut ask Art's device 
 <hic pertinent (pn^stion : — ■• WilTt bring a good 
 
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 Days and weeks; and her doyb'es, her china, sach- 
 ets— 
 Brouglit never one dollar, though oftentimes praise; 
 .\nd — when she'd braved snow and had pocketed 
 
 |ii-ide. 
 To answer advertisement for the Kast Side, — 
 Her alto, so praised where rich anuiteurs bore us. 
 Was promptly condemned, as unfit for the chorus ! 
 
 And week by week, Tom Jingle struggled on — 
 Wrote romance, essay — poems by the ton ; 
 Snubbed first by bosses, then by lesser men. 
 Who once were proud to ])raise his pungent pen ; 
 For leadlike load his flippant style depressed, 
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 Went, wlicii liis thi'cadliarc cvt'iiinti-suit n;nc nut. 
 
 Oft in tlie loiii;- year, since tliat t'atfsonu' liay 
 When Peter ilrove liis wilful child away. 
 His prancing bays had halted round (he hlock ; 
 And her weak mother — in hlatd-: veil and fnMd< — 
 Had trod with loathing 'mid the crowding poor, 
 And timid, sought tinil child's forbidden door: 
 liringing her tears, her woes and sympatliy — 
 Some lioarded dollars — surreptitious tea. 
 i''or Peter's orders — cinKd-fixcd .as T'ate — 
 Were that her name, within tiiat mansion great 
 Sliouhl ne'er l)e whispereil ; nor would lie relent, 
 Tliat dime, or dinner — should she starve — be sent 
 So the wt'ak wife, in trembling did c\adc 
 Those laws Hero<lian, by her tyrant m.-ule : 
 Yet wept to wat(di that pettc(l daughter slave, 
 .\nd shud'ring tlmuglit Imw Inw' a ]iau{>er"s grave! 
 
 i*>ut. to the lonely mother lirst had come 
 The summons in her gildeil, broken home 
 To leave the Best Society down here 
 And enter into it, we'll hope, up Tliere ! 
 Yet, liowe'er liigh in human language rated, 
 One's wortli may drop, ]ierchance, when he's tran 
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 And now tlic Ijiittle, waged so l)rave ami well, 
 Seenieil lost indeeil. Her paint ini;' would not sell : 
 While |)uldisiiei-s — polite and free of old — 
 (irew to Tom's etfbrts, critical and eol<l ; 
 lie got cold shoulfler rare, yet seldom cash 
 And lived on promises, instead of hash ! 
 
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 The creaking old stair gives a dolorous sound ; 
 Sybilla springs up from her paints, with a bound ; 
 And ere Tom's dull step to the landing can reach, 
 The baby wakes up, with a shrill, eerie screech. 
 Recalling those dark Southernwoods in their gloom. 
 Where the Horned Owl laughs loud at humanity's 
 
 doom ! 
 And when Tom does enter — with bundles galore. 
 Which lie tosses contemptuously down on the Hoor — 
 She knows that no dainties their wrappers contain. 
 But only •■ Rejected Addresses " again. 
 And. as he bends over wife, l)al)y — small bliss 
 Warms liei- from his somewhat perfunctory kiss, 
 i'or. however sad, it is no less a truth. 
 That I'ovei-ty's grip chills the ardor of youth : 
 And what was most glowing with fervor and tire, 
 Cools rapidly, wlien both the soul and brain tire! 
 
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 Tdiii weai-ily drops in tlic rickety diair — 
 
 Too tired to liope, yet too dulled to despair; 
 
 And says, in a voice 'twixta lauj;;li and a moan: — 
 
 " I guess I had l)etter leave writing alone. 
 
 Whatever I try. its rejection is sure — 
 
 There lie my last stories : — tliey vote me a horel 
 
 And when I called. <lcar, for the loaf and the ham. 
 
 The grocer said, ' No,' — and prelixed it with — 
 
 ' Damn I ' 
 And you, little girl, to a shadow are worn; 
 Your dress is all tattered and hoth shoes are torn. 
 l')y .love I as I came hack T made up my mind — 
 I'll accejit that lirute's offer. 1 last week de(diued, 
 'i'o dri\-e on the lioi'se-cars I l''our dollars a week 
 Is Ix'tter than promises, if not so rln'c! 
 No; don't say one word. wife, for when 1 once nuike 
 rp my mind, there is nothing my purjjose can 
 
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 Tlu' wife, at the window, no tremi>r heti-ayed, 
 
 Tho' two hot little tears fi'om her eyelids liad strayed, 
 
 Meand'ring along to the tip of her iiosc — 
 
 While a great lum]i. hard-throhhing, into licr throat 
 
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 Hut cheerily answered, pretending a cough 
 That swallowed the one, as the others hi'ushed off: — 
 
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 " I've ;i place as mirse-governess open, you know; 
 
 But, ']"(ini ilear, liow (■(iuhl 1 farm baby and go? 
 
 But no more of business to-nigbt, Sir; so see, 
 
 I'll give you a steaming-hot, strong cup of tea! 
 
 There's nothing to oat, dear; the sugar's all gone; 
 
 And — Stop! you rash Adlow; that milk's for your 
 sun! 
 
 Never mind, in the morning I'm promised two eggs. 
 
 By the cook from the Smythe's: and some nice dev- 
 illed logs! 
 
 And. perhaps, I luai/ manage to get some small change, 
 
 For //(/•■-■ plate I've done, from the AVoman's Exchange!" 
 
 And she bustled about, with cracked teapot and cup. 
 
 As though, with Duke Humphrey, 'twere fillingto sup: 
 
 While Tom, warmed l>y tea, with a small, dismal 
 titter, 
 
 Remarked that their lot. like their beverage, was bit- 
 ter. 
 
 Then sudden: 
 
 "Oh! Billa, 1 hapiiened to meet 
 
 Your old nurse. Mammy Jane, up on 6!Hh street. 
 
 I'm awfully dull, for 1 really forgot — 
 
 You'll forgive me, my dear little wife, will you not? 
 
 She said that your father's again very ill — 
 
 .\notlier bad stroke, that is likely to — kill!" 
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 W'liile her colorless face a shade whiter <irew, 
 As she cried. ii\ hoarse whisjier: — 
 
 ■•(). 'l',,!,!: I r,i,ri hear 
 
 'l"o think of liiiii dyiiiu — iiiilo\'ecl — ahnii tiicl'e! 
 
 I know he's heeii harsh; hut I owe iiiiii the life 
 'I'hat 1 is.^,^\■^' all to yoii, wiieii you niaih' uie a wife; 
 So — if he lie dyiin: — ()h! husliand, you know 
 Mil place is heside him —Mind haliy;— Til ^ol " 
 
 And i>ale, urave, determined — translinm-cd hy hovc', 
 Spite of jiatched, faded gown and tattered oh! nlo\-e, 
 Dingy bonnet — but haloed by crown of fair iiair, 
 Sybilla, the girl of the old (hiys. stood there! 
 
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 She was gone; through \]\r gloom and the fast fall- 
 ing sleet, 
 'i'iiat clung, like .Misfortune, aiuiut lier slim feet. 
 ikit the rush other pulses, in memories (j|d, 
 Killed all tliought of distance, the wt't and the cold 
 I'ntil. drenched and j)anting. .Sybilla once more 
 Passed under the monogram over that door, 
 Where — frosted with icicles, dreary to see — 
 'Die corpulent () was still clasped by the I'! 
 
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 W'itliiii, all was (|niet and still as the grave. 
 
 Her wet, turn slip]>ers. no eelio back gave 
 
 Fnmi that sdft, tufted carpet of Japanese loom, 
 
 As she breathless aseendeil and peered in his room. 
 
 And thiTf lay the man who had given her life : 
 
 There Doctor and si'rvant, — no daughtci- — no wife! 
 
 Ho seemed to l)e conscious ; Syl)illa could hear 
 
 iiricf word of eomjdaint ; anon he would swear 
 
 .\1 tardy attendant, or (|Ucrulous seek 
 
 'I'd know if he'd get hack to business that week ? 
 
 Deep pily — fresh-gushing affection possessed, 
 
 .\t sound of his voice, all the wronged daughter's 
 
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 Cast olf with her wrap, iier last shred of pride. 
 She moved softly in and knelt down by his side; 
 And clasping the vein-knotted hand in her two. 
 Bowed on it her fair head, in reverence true. 
 
 Tlie sick man slow turned his eye, heavy and blear. 
 To rest on that damp mass of fair-shining hair : 
 Then, strong nerved by passion, half-raised in his bed 
 And spoke loud and clear; 
 
 " Ho! you thought I was dead? 
 You ingrate! you viper! And so you would dare 
 To mock and defy me, when stretched on my bier! 
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 Tliat father's resentment I'll tearh yoii Id know — '' 
 He snatched his luind free: and a iiuiik. heavy hlow 
 Dealt straight at the faee, raised iu ]iityinii- prayer 
 To his own. Hut starvation and grief and despair 
 Were swifter than hate. I'rone, hacd^ward she fell 
 Dead-fainting: while hues (d'the nethermost ludl 
 Spread over the purpling hrow, li]is and (dieek 
 Of the father, now gaspingly trying to s]ieak. 
 ••(^ui<d<!" mnttereil he hoarsely — 'M^Miirk. Doctor — 
 
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 Ill lireast-]io(d-;et — my coat — a pajier — yes! there — 
 (^uiek I Damn you ! — move faster — pen — ink — / /'/'// 
 
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 Slie shall — not one penny! — Nd daughter of mine' " 
 
 Then the old clerk, close hy. his fell hatre.l knew— 
 
 That paper the will I'eter yesterday di-ew. 
 
 \\'hieh devised to his hroker, and sole heii', .lolin 
 
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 Young Crcesus, who'd already more than enougli — 
 Half-a-million in bonds. Kv'ry cent of tlie rest, 
 In bitterest irony of liis beiinest, 
 To build up, in style of most modern perfection, 
 A glittering, tall and imposing erection: 
 Ilis monument grand — H ;i re pcrenidus. 
 
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 And lii)in(> for sucli women as want, dire, strennons — 
 In tliis land of Cliristians and underpaid work — 
 Oft drives to far worse than hareeni of tlie Turk! 
 Tiiat fortune colossal — drops coined from each heart, 
 Not exceptino; his own — thus Peter made part 
 Of his whole rule of life. But mention was none 
 (.){ starving young daughter, or baby grandson. 
 " For vtitn cv'rt/oiic fliat hath shall he given." 
 Was part of the word for whieli he had striven : 
 And (Iccj) on his hard heart was graven to-day — 
 " Bitl front, him that Itath not, shall be taken away!" 
 
 So writing this devise, with hatred-born oath, 
 
 The father had nnittered: — "Yes! Let them starve, 
 
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 And. conning this new one o'er, eagerly still. 
 Had tossed in the tire his one other will, 
 That cut off Sybilla, but left to his wife 
 The income of five solid millions, for life. 
 But. just as the old clerk iiad turned to call in 
 A witness to signature — outside a din 
 Rose wild, as though Satan might demons unchain 
 To seize his male-children of greed and of gain: — 
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 l*'a(di vein, full and swol'n. left dark purple trace. 
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 It came; it was chitche(I in a hot. eager grasp; 
 The r was half foi-mcd: then a dull, rattling gasp; 
 The arm stitfened out, as the testament fell' 
 Then dull-gla/.iug eyes of the last struggle tell — 
 The jaw drops — 'Tis over! — The hand, even tlien. 
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 But those lurid intentions, — with such hell is paved — 
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