When I Mean To Marry

Wlien do I mean lo marry ? - Well- "usadle to dispute with ate ; But if you choose to liear me tel!, Pray listen while I flx the date j- Wlien (laughters liaste, with eagerfeet, A mother's dailv toil to sliare ; Can mnke the pudding ■which tl:ey eat, And mend the stockings which "they wear. When inaidens look upon a man As if himself they woiild marry, And not as anny-soldiers sean A sutler or a commissary. When gontle ladies who llave got The ofter of a lover's hand, i Consent to share his " ean.hly lot," And do not mean his lot of land. Whan young mechanics are allowed To flnd and wed the farmer 's girls Who dont expect to be endowed Vi itli rubíes, diamonds and pearls ; When wives, in short, shall freely give Their liearts and hands to aid their spouses And live as they werewont to live Within their iires' one-story hpuses; Then madam, - if I'm nottooold, - Rejoiced to quit this lonely life, I'll brush my beaver, cease to acold ; And look about me for a wife !