Sweet Seventeen

líow light hír fairy fooísleps f all ! The garden gato she gently clones, Ana wasddrs by tbe blossomed wall, White Judo rnake inirtii among the roeeR. The burnished braids that lind her head, Wilh carcless ribbon JooECly ho'den ; Her friend Louisa uaH thc-ni red, Louisa'a brother eays they're goldeu. Uupchooled in the maturer artn Of picking all her friends to pieces, Nor skilled to ehain ber lovers' hearta With witchery of Love's caprices I LipR that woiïld ecorn ihe truth to hide, A lauRh that's silvcry and hearly, The acgel of tbe poor - the pride Of every jolJy Claris tinas party ! To flirt with poor oíd Colonol Chanco, And wing bÏB heart with glances haughty, Between the pauses of the dance- It's nloe- bnt oh ! it's very nanghty ! Thrn seatwards, when her waitz is done, For fear mamma sliould Fcent the treason ; Porrr iuDocent! coudemned to run The gantlet of a city eeason ! She dreaniB all loves beneath the mocn Are eqnal partB of truth and honey ; Lfave her a'one- fhe'll learn too bood That Love'b another name for Money ! Where is the iiameleps graco of old, The spotlesB buu!, the pure compaseion ? AI-18 ! is all the virgin gold Untarnished by the dust of Faebion ? And ehe, a city Bcason's belle, Of slaveB and snitors fhe'U have plenty, And marry, if her woi-ld oes well, A rich old wlflower -nhon she's twenty !