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PART I.-TIIE PRINCELY PROGRESS.
PART II.-TIIE COUNCIL OF FIVE IIUNDRED.
PART III.-TIIE ACADEMIY BALL. 
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PART I
THE PRINCELY PROGRESS.
: HAVEN'T you heard how an Eng       lish Prince, prince, prince,
A genuine royal scionHow an English Prince, not three months
since,
Came sailing, singing, dancing along,
Jis true American friends among?
To him I dedicate this song,
By leave of the BRITISIH LION.
0, haven't you heard how an English Duke,
duke, dukeHow an English Duke his home forsook? 
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How, leaving his high old castle,
NEWCASTLE came with the other two,
PI)T-NCE OF WALES and Lord RENFLIEW?
Here are grandees three, it seem!s to me!
Add them up how many there be:
And while you are trying the knot to undo,
I'll give you the rest of mrny parcel.
Maidens were saying, long before
He came in sight of a Yankee shore,
That all the princes of fairy rhyme,
Voyaging " once upon a time,"
Never compared with this island Prince;
His lips were sweeter than sugared quince;
His locks as brown
As Prince CIIARMING's own;
When he spoke, his tone
Was nice to be heard, as that of the bird,
To which Prince RUBY was cruelly turned
By the spell his magica,l rival learned;
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He had just enough of the rickets in
youth
To make him wise as Prince RICQUET, and,
sooth,
-No tuft to make him frighitful;
Prince VALIANT himself was not braver;
And as to his face-I here give place
To my artist and engraver:
If they half do their duty by his beauty,
You'll own his face is delightful.
In the mnorn of a warm midsummer day,
The royal party made their way
Where the ships, not far from Portsmouth
bar,
Lay trimmed and ready for starting;
VICToIA"'s cheek  His Highness kissed,
Heartily shook the CONSOPT'S fist,
Gave sister ALICE's nose a twist,
And so got throulih with the parting.
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Past Cape Clear and the Channel Fleet,
Waft, breezes, waft the sweet
Young Prince, and don't be froward          As you are, they say,
In the Biscay Bay;
For the jolly old Sun is shining his best
On the gold Jtc Diin of the Prince's crest,
That flames at the HERO'S peak.
"Forward! forward! royally toward
The loyal welcomers in the West,
And the distant land we seek!"
But down, down, beneath the waves,
To the ocean-nymphs' and Undines' caves,
'Twas telegraphed that a miortal Prince
Was crossing the broad Atlantic waters:
So strange a thing had not happened,
since
Prince FLOD sailed over the Northern Sea,
And was carried off by the LURLEY's daugh      ters;
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You all have read the story, I trust;
If you haven't you must
(You'll find it in THORPE'S Epitome);
Then  0, what  a wonder  the  billows
under!
For even great Neptune's Queen herself
Came up for a sight of the young GUJ:LPH;
One by one, the Nereid race,
Nymph and mermaid and water-fay,
To catch a glimpse of his handsome face,
Swam round the IHERO every day;
Lifting themselves on their dolphin tails,
Parting their hair with fingers fair,
Peering over the vessel's rails,
Splashing, dashing, glances flashingLonging to capture the Prince of Wales!
* For this rhyme'tis proper to make amends
To some H-disdaining English friends;
But who, without going to WALKER for-help,
Could rhyme it at all, if pronounced Gu-elp?
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But straight for the Nova Scotian shore
The squadron bore,
Till, after wet nights and iceberg frights,
And other usual marine delights,
It anchored ill Halifax harbor.
Here thirty thousand Jonathan Slicks,
Packed together like so many bricks,
Gave ALBEIT EDWARD no time to "fix,"
Nor the Duke to visit his barber;
Such loyalty never was known before;
Cheering, clamor, and cannons' roar,
And still the tumult increases,
Until, by way of crowning the fun,
And showing how such things should be
done,
They blow a gunner to pieces.
Now how can I crowd together the tales
You all have heard, of the Prince of
Wales
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From Water-Sprites' alluring Slyness,
Newcastle saves His Royal Highness.
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On his grand Canadian journey,
Without counterfeiting thle newspaper-lmen,
Or gaining the use of a " HOWAR)D's" pen,
By a special Power of Attorney?
St. John's, Windsor, Quebec, and so on to
MIontreal, Ottawa, Kingston, TorontoParliament Houses —Victoria BridgesLakes and rivers, and mountain ridgoes —
Cheers, addresses, riots and marchles
Made, nolens-volew,), through Orange arches;
All painted together and framed anew,
Form a very kaleidoscopic view.
MAy readers  have heard, I  take  it for
grante(,
Of his going to church; how the choristers
chanted,
An(d how, when they c.ame to the Glo2,ia
lPatri,
t sounded precisely like  GlOria.ctt2,'i;
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How the Bishop went bowing him into the
aisle,
Then preached him a sermon  as long as a
mile,
On the duty of kings to be humble;
While, placed in a lofty pew by himself,
On a throne of crimson, the bashful GUELPIIr
Hardly dared the responses to mumble.
You have heard how he knighted NAR       CISSE BELLEAU,
And frightened that worthy provincial so,
That he went on both knees for the
accolade-blow;
How, when the Prince washed, each loyalist
bought a
Flacon of the costly soap-and-water;
And how a barber grew suddenly rich,
By selling each hair of the handful, which
He shingled down from the Prince's crown,
At the very low rate of a " quarter."
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And how, by a singular transformation,
lWhile whirling across  the Niagara road,
he
Slipt out of his royal incarnation,
And into LORD RENFREw's body.
It would give me very much pleasure to
sing
How he speedily felt "every inch a king,"
As one of the sovereign people;
For the first time moving among his
mates,
Made his lightning tour of the Northern
States,
More quizzed than the clock on a
steeple;
Drank lager and danced, wherever he
chanced,
At St. Louis, Chicago, and various cities
Whose names are not suited for rhyming
in ditties;
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From his balcony bowed
Three times to each crowd;
Then escaped to the prairies, where game
were so plenty,
That, in spite of the very astonishing rent,
he
Displayed in his trousers, hle shot more
than twenty;
Then,  in  rosewood  cars  and a special
train,
Whirled on to the White House, J. B., and
Miss LANE,
Where many grave things were uttered and
done,
With all sorts of etiquette-ical fun;
Then  there's  Richmond, and Baltimore,
Pittsburg, PorkopolisBut what are the whole to our grander
Metropolis?
I merely name thenm to skip them all,
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And will leave ALBERPT EDWARD proceecl      ing bedward,
While I tell how the Gothamites got up
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THE COUNCIL OF FOUR IIUNDIRED.
i EAwNIIILE the Lords of the Empire
City
Were grouped together, on  Churchl and
'Change,
Saying-" 0, what a pity! O0, vwhat a pity,
For BOOLE and his crew to be given range
To bully, bluster, and blunder!
To go in for another such Golden Fleece
As warmed the backs of the Japanese;
Or come with their Aldermanric quids,
Mlarvellous grammar and yellow kids;
To excite Lord PRENFREW'S wonder'."
For the honor and commerce of the city,
'Twas plain to see there must be a Corw
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So mien of means and might were chosen,
Score by score and dozen by dozen,
In all, four hundred noble names,
With General SCOTT to lead them:
So great their fortunes and their fames,
That when the Aldermen came to read
them,
They blessed their luminaries stellar,
And hid, abashed, in the City Hall cellar.
Thirty Presidents of banks
Were in the Commnittee's foremost ranks;
Half as many had banks of their own;
Nearly a score so rich had grown,
Each could start a daily paper alone;
To give the list variety,
Plenty of lawyers were scattered througli,
With judges and editors not a few,
But these of the orthodox saffron hue,
The golden cream of society;
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The Historical Rooms were represented,
And the Clubs had cause to be well con
tented;
Lots of the rising ticket-shares
Were held by the " UNioN" millionaires,
And the "ATrENUMc" was counted in,
Though famous rather for numbers than
tin;
The classic" CENTURY" furnished seven
Then, to give the loaf a proper leaven
Of bibliopolical taste antique,
A note was sent, in Coptic and Greek,
Requesting the " BRADFOnD CLUB" to assist
In ekeing out the Committee-list;
An answer came, in cuneiform signs;
When read by a paleologist,
It said: "The Bradford Club declines,
Engaged on business vital."
They were reproducing, "by special per      mission,
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The " Book of Genesis; ist Edition,
B13. C. 1491."
Withli a steel fac-simile, fairly done,
Of MOSES' book-plate, in the title.
In fine, so stylish and wealthy a set
Were never gathered together yet    Full of bankers, clubmen, and scholars;
A  Heraldc reporter, who knows  how to
count,
Added up their estates to the gross amount
Of Two HlUNDIED MILLIoN DOLLARS!
Birds of a feather, they came together,
To hold a primal caucus!
It don't appear in what mystic hall
They met, or whether in daylight at all;
Perhaps in the shades of Orcus,
Wherever it was, the question arose"How do members to honor the Prince
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Some  wanted a  DINNER,  and  mnidnight
speeches
AVlong with the wine and brandy-peachles;
Others on having a BALL insisted,
Which proposition the first resisted,
Till quite a dignified contest was raging;
But, while gentlemen fiercely the battle
were waging,
One member, most potent and wealthy, be       gan
To speak up for the Terpsichorean plan;
For he thought, if Lord RENFREW Ihimself
were to choose,
A Ball would exactly accord with his
views:
That very accomplished and noble young
man
Could ride, sing, and shoot, and, if need be,
eat,
In a manner that others found hard to beat
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But none of these arts
]Iade him Prince of Hearts,
So much as his talent for dancing;
Of all the Princes under the sun,
rhere surely never was such an one
For frolicking and romancing!
A dozen sets, at a firontier ball,
Hadn't begun to content him at all;
He'd dance in all sorts of weather;
His Arms should have been a fiddle and bow,
With a pair of castanets hung below,
And his plume, that charmed the young
ladies so,
(With a sala-am to Prof. INGRAIIAM,)
The original Dancing Feather;
It was even said that his great delight,
Established etiquette scorning,
Would not only be to dance all night,
But-once   escaped  from  NEwcASTLE'S
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To go home with the girls in the
morning!
Then from their sofas uprose ten
Very wealthy and righteous men,
With consciences sorely troubled:
"They'd dance if they must," but if they
could call
The thing a Reception, instead of a Ball,"
They'd " see their subscriptions dou       bled."
Four were Presbyterians blue;
High-Church Episcopalians two;
Low-Church Episcopalian one;
Broad-Church Unitarian, none;
Three were Baptists, open and close:
All pillars in firm position.
For two, the Ball was too much  of a
dose;
But the eight resolved, with one accord,
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That, as David danced before the Lord,
They'd foot it once for the royal nonce,
Despite the rlisk of perdition;
Yet, the better to wash the sin away,
Each secretly vowed to shortly pay
Very much more than ever before
To the Afghanistan mission.
Thereupon the Committee voted, all,
That My Lord should have an Academy
Ball,
And the matter was settled without more
ado;
Then, as knowing rumors began to creep
through
The daily journals, of what was in view,
Very great men the Committee grew
In every one's estimation.
Little by little the news transpired,
That the grand Academy had been hired
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At a fabulous comuputation;
That, after this, Aladdin himnself
Might lay up his rusty old lamip on the
shelf,
For the splendors, familiar to Genius or Elf,
Would pale by the side of those supplied
For Lord RENFPIEW's delectation.
To think how the four hundred members
were harassed
By thousands of firiendly requests for a card!
Married and single alike were embarrassed,
(Some say they enjoyed it, but that's a
canard 1)
Whether eating or talking, riding or walk       ing,
Almost while dressing themselves and
undressing,
With pretty lips pouting and white arms
caressing,
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And sweet voices wishing a maidenly bless       ing,
Agreeing to dance with, kiss, love, even
wed,
Those by whom the dear girls to the Ball
should be led!
"How many tickets for ladies?" next
This  question  our members much  per       plexed;
But a plethoric sub-committee of three
Found tailoring easy as A. B. C.,
And took the Academy's measure;
("If they'd fit it out with a new suit of
clo'es,
Scenes and curtains," M. STRAKOSCII "knows
It would give his patrons pleasure;")
Dowl on their knees they measured the
floor,
Giving each lady five feet, and no more,
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For her crinoline-diamneter;
As if women advance in the mazy dance,
In a kind of trochaic pentameter.
Those  who  havn't   read,  can   easily
guess
Of the rules prescribed forl manners and
dress,
And what female battles began to ensue,
Betwixt Fifth and lMadison Avenue,
On the delicate question, as to who
Should dance first with the noble
strang er;
IHow every young lady turned up her
nose
At fair ones, who ventured her claims to
oppose:
Tlow bosom fiiends became mortal foes,
And jewelled fingers dealt tiny blows,
Much fuller of spite than danger!
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But who finally won the coveted honor,
And how she bore her laurels upon herThese things, with the glory, and glitter
and all
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Not to mingle the earthly with pleasures
Elysian,
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PART Ill.
THE ACADEMY BALIL.
CLOUDS  and  sunshine,  wind  and
railn,
And the world turns over and over
again.
Lord Renfrew has kissed his glove to Miss
Lane,
Whom the Gothamites have implored in
vain
To grace the scene of their glory;
For J. B., smoothing his cambric band,
Plainly gives them to understand
She shall follow no princes through the
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In the mythlologic story. 
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Passing the Quaker City's gates
[My Lord has left the United States
To cross the Jersey peninsula;
Has slept once more on American shore:
Ridden from Castle Garden, through
Three miles of flags-red, white, and
blue,
Walls of marble, iron, and brick    Roofs and balconies, noisily thick
With thousands sprawling after a view,
'Till he's lodged on the handsomest
Avenue
Of the greatest of cities insular.
But now, as October Twelfth drew near,
What hurry and bustle, joy and fear!
Jealous hatred of those to appear,
By those whose hopes were blasted and
sere;
As if all the life of a hemisphere
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Were mingled in hocus-pocus,
And, through Vanity's lenses flashing hot,
Made tleEmpire City a radiant spot,
With Irving Place for its focus!
What costume-trying in visits flying:
Days of dress-and;jewelry buying!
A hundred mantua-makers were dying
Of sheer exhaustion, and half a score
Exchanged the smiles they usually wore
For a reckless inurbanity;
While every tailor, from Fulton to Bond,
Declared himself in the Slough of Despond,
And solemnly swore that one order more
Would drive him into insanity.
What scintillant splendors found display,
In mirrored windows along Broadway!
By the Vanderbilt they sent, in advance,
For jewels of Florence and silks of France.
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Homeward she paddled, deeply laden,
With stuffs to made a Manhattan maiden
A princess, minus the dowry;
To make a matron of forty years,
As fine as a Dowager Duchess appears
In a spectacle-play, at the Bowery.
No lady-shopl)per could ever escape
From the robes of every fabric and shapeSatins, taffetas, gauzes, crape;
Skirts of tulle embroidered with gold;
Watered silks in waves unrolled;
Heaviest textures, marvellous hues
Ashes of Roses, buffs and blues;
Gros des Indies and rich brocade,
In lustrous folds and colors arrayed;
Dark Moire'es, with silver garniture,
Lighlt Moire'es, brilliant with gold and
cherryFabrics costly enough, I'm sure,
A queen to wed, or even to bury;
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Chantilly laces, Valenciennes;
Ribbons woven by Lyons men;
Fancy fans, with flower and feather,
Lavishly piled in heaps together;WThat can compare with sights so rare,
Save the Paris booth in VANIrY FAIR!
There's my charming fi'iend, Columbia VThat lily of aristocracy!
As she sat, on the Sunday before the B.,
In her father's cushioned pew at Grace,
Did you think-when  she  covered her
beautiful face,
And knelt on the crimson tabouretThat she heard what the Doctor had to say,
Or prayed as the ritual bade her pray?
What supplications she made, have flown
Straight to the foot of fashion's throne;
The angel, who into her heart could probe,
Knew well that instead of a stainless robe,
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She quite as much longed at the time to
possess
An earthly and exquisite PRenfrew dress;
That she thought to herself she would
have it mnade
Of the whitest and richest striped brocadeStriped with Magenta, and overlaid
With  silken  rose-buds,  blossoms   and
leaves;
Low-pointed corsage and puffing sleeves
Should grace the charms of her waist and
arms;
Over her shoulders should be set
A cape, a la Marie Antoinette,
And a bunchl of myrtle and mignonette
Should bloom where the point-lace borders
met.
Pearls and silver should intertwine
To make her a head-dress quite divine;
For her feet she will use white-satin shoes,
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With mauve rosettes, encircling pearls,
So that-when in the waltz her crinoline
whirls,
And the tips of her toes shall catch the
eye
Of the Prince, he will say to the standers-by,
That she has for her feet a toilet completer
Than that of a Spanish Seiorita,
And that Cinderella's could not have been
sweeter!
But the world turns over and over again,
With cloud and sunshine, wind and rain,
Love and envy and rancor.
AT LAST IT HAS COMIE! the crowning night;
The ultimatum of all delight;
The hour, when even an anchorite
Mlay be pardoned for weighing anchor,
Hoisting sails, and bearing away
To the rendezvous in Prince's Bay,
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For whichl thousands vainly hanker;
(You see it is not the Committee's fault
That Smith or Jones isn't worth his salt
Or wasn't born a banker.)
It has come at last!  How  bright the
sight
Of a Grand-Academy gala-night!
The blaze of the whirling calcium rays
Lightens the spacious entrance-ways,
Flashing on up-turned, glaring faces
Of   thousands   thronging  about   the
squares:
Thousands,  to  whom  your  jewels and
laces
Are things for which nobody this night
cares.
For a sight of the Prince the people
crowd;
To your simple hearts should be allowed
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A sight of the Prince, poor people!
since
lie came to visit us one and all,
Askled or not asked to go to the Ball!
Scores of policemen will never convince
The  crowd, that it oughtn't to see the
Prince.
Up to the porch the carriages irumble,
By yellow-plushes attended:
No wonder the laboring-nen feel humble,
In the presence of scenes so splendid!
Never before, never before,
Such diamonds and dresses entered that
door;
And VANITY FAIR, arrayed in its best,
Glides in with the rest.
(It wouldn't have been so very well dres       sed,
If it hlad not carefully learned by rote
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A compilation of information,
Which I will try to find room below to
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*" Without further prelude or protraction,
I have the distinguished satisfaction
To avail myself of the present chance
Of informing those invited to dance,
That no lady can enter, whose head has on it
That gross impropriety called a bonnet;
Colonels and captains may display
The suits which they wear on training-day;
All others must come in evening dress;
Of course you will never be able to guess
WVhat a gentleman wears, when comme ilfaut,
So this private note is to let you know
That legs and arms, and bosom and back,
Must be rigidly cased in cloth of black;
White shirts and cravats, French boots for the feet,
With light-colored kids, make up the complete
Array of a member of the elite.
That this is authoritative to show,
I affix my name and address below."
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Into the radiance we glide,
As a bayoul-voyager follows the ticlde,
From mangrove shadows and fallen trees,
To tle silvery slheen of moonlit seas;
Into the glare of countless lighlts,
And the weddling of sweetest sounds and
sigh-ts;
Where gilded walls and tapestried hialls,
Repeat tle \tusic's dying falls,
And floweris of rnmultitudinous hues,
Their blended, odorous breathls diffuise
But thlroughl the glamour we move along
To glance at the guiests thlat with us tlhrong,
And study the queer variety
It tales to fashion tat paradoxlcal edifice, built on golden "rocks,"
Entitled( " O)ur Best Society."
Take of judtges aind generals, each, a pair;
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Mlayors and governols, one or two;
Of authors and scholars very few;
Co;ngressmDen, plenty as drops of dew;
RaLilroad presidents, bulls and bears,
BLankers, merchants, and millionaires;
These, with their daughlters, sisters, and
wivesThree thousand wealthly and coimmon-place
livesBirds of one  feathler-squeeze  them  to       gethber
At a Prince's Ball, and you have, in short,
An "illustrated Republican Court."
Of course, in dignity evanescent,
The famous Committee all were presenlt;
But to neophytes, who had never been
At an Academic full-dress scene,
(Grave bankers, leading off, with a will,
The gallopa(le of a gra(nd quadl'ille,
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Must have seemed, in their coats and white
cravats,
A species of clerical acrobats,
Training, to give the Shaker profession
A numerous, Orthodox accession.
Nor would the idea be very far wrong,
For a tithe,'tis said, to churches belong,
Whose articles hold that Dance and Song
Are Stygian missionaries;
-Here my friend, the mathematician, says
'Tis a handy rule that works both ways,
And that condemnation with rank and
station
In inverse ratio varies.
Far be it fiom me to feel aggrieved
That the festive dance has thus received
Official and grave endorsement;
Yet I charge these gentlemen, large and
small,
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To never again denounce a Ball,
But to stand coimmitted, once for all,
To what I claimn their course meant.
For I never heard that the angels rate
The presence of prince or potentate,
As helping to add a pious weight
To a carnal convocation;
And, to set the matter plain and straight,
Why  should Jack be doomed to a sul       phurous fate,
One shudders to think of, for shaking a
leg
And drinking his flip, with 3Ioll and Peg,
In the Valley of Humiiliation,
Whiile a churchly man, of plethoric purse,
Is promised treatment quite thle reverse,
For his loftier dissipation?
And what is there worse in a rustic Reel,
Merrily measutred with toe and hlleel,
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The  Prince's  Ball.
On a country-tavern's floor of deal,
While whips are cracked, and sleigh-bells
peal
Outside, till echo answersWhat is there worse, say my honest rhymes,
In these plain, old-fashioned, jolly good
times,
Where Sambo plays for the dancers,
Than in the maze of a princely show,
Where diamonds sparkle and velvets glow,
And the wave of a spruce maestro's bow
Beats out the time in The Lancers?
Enough, you say, of polemical rhyme;
And the ladies whisper,'tis fully time
For the Prince to make his appearance;
"He's coming!"  " He isn't!"  "Yes, that
is he;"
And better for him, to be seen and to see,
If the flower of our aristocracy
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Our countrie Friends finde Dancing pleasant,
Although no Prince of Walcs be present.
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Would give him a better clearance.
But as ALBERT EDWARD, young and fair,
Stood on the canopied dais-stair,
And looked, from the circle crowding there,
To the length and breadth of the outer
scene,
Perhaps he thought of his mother, the
QUEEN;
(Long may her emnpery be serene
Long may the heir of England prove
Loyal and tender; may he pay
No less allegiance to her love,
Than to the sceptre of her sway!)
Perhaps he wondered if this were the land,
Where Nobility's said to be based on
Labor,
Where every man, with a strong right hand,
Can claim a title as well as his neighbor;
Perhaps he saw that we have a King,
The potent and sovereign DOLLAR,
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Able the nose of the workman to bring
To the grindstone, and over his neck to fling
A heavy and feudal collar.
But what were his thoughts I can never
tell,
For sharply, as belle was jostling belleEachl making a Flora-Temple " burst,"
For the honor of dancing beside himn firstThe staging  before  himi fell in with a
crash,
And fifty young  ladies, as  quick  as a
flash,
Sank down in a kind of etherial hash,
As dainty a dish as a Prince could wish;
But he passed to the supper-pavilion,
And we saw him no more, till they miended
the floor,
And opened thle prinial cotillion.
Th]iere,  gracefully  dancing  with   Mrs.
AlIORGAN,
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Ye handsome Prince is at a losse
To whom ye Hlandkerchief to tosse.
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Hie had quite forgotten his thoughlts,
I suppose,
Just as hearers a sermon forget, at its
close,
When  the "Jubilate"  is played on the
organ;
Whatever  his fancies were, nobody
knows.
Now, how strange the feeling that comes to
one,
When the royal Show is almost done,
When the gas for hours has dazzled the eye,
And the air grows dense as the flowers die!
How strange to go out, from the crowded
rout,
To the open street, where to all is given
A sight of the clear and infinite Heaven;
Out into the cool October night,
Where, in place of that garish inner light,
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The  Prince's  Ball.
Are all those silvery cressets, fed
WTith rays from God's own glory shed.
Ah! if one now might only flee
Across that measureless, lucid sea,
To lustres —O, how pure and far!
What, from the spirit's chosen star,
Would all this glittering turmoil seem,
Save the fantasy of an earthly dream?
And even the Man who lives in the Moon(You'd reach him a million times as soon!)
Who, day after day, sees the whole round
world
Like a map to his curious gaze unfiuriledWould perceive no increase in the polarized
ray
Thrown off from this part of our sphere,
Though the roof of the Opera Hlouse
welre away,
An(l the lights that illumine each tier
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And all the lamps that make Paris, they
say,
And London, as cheerful by night as by
day,
With  all in New  York, together  were
burning;
To the Man in the Moon they'd be past all
discerning;
So  there's one man, at least, will know
nothing at all
Of the splendor and fame of THE PRINCE's
BALL!
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