Some ladies dress in muslin full and white,
Some gentlemen in cloth succinct and black;
Some patronize a dog-cart, some a hack.
Some think a painted clarence only right.
Youth is not always such a pleasing sight,
Witness a man with ta**els on his back ;
Or woman in a great-coat like a sack
Towering above her s** with horrid height.
If all the world were water fit to drown,
There are some whom you would not teach to
swim.
Rather enjoying if you saw them sink ;
Certain old ladies dressed in girlish pink.
With roses and geraniums on their gown : —
Go to the Bason, poke them o'er the rim.