Poetry: The Fashionable Lady's Prayer

"Gire ui tina day our doily bread," And pina and cakes beaides, To lond the atomuch, paiu the head, And choketho vital tidea, And if too soon a ftiend decaya, Or diee in ngony - We'll talk of God's mysterious ways," And lny it all to thee. Give us to ilensc a niorbid taaie, ■in spite of pain ajid death, ConBmption-Btri;hítB round tho waist, Almost to stop iWbreaih ; Th, if infirmity tleuda Our atinted pnwjeny- In visittiioft for or ins, We'll !■■ il H lo thee. Gie ub big husiles in the rear, (We ask it not in fun,) A thing for corn-field crows t# foar, And hci'B to roost upon : And if we heat the hips nd pine, Whnt matter nhould il be 7 AnBickness, fullows we can whine, A'nd lay it all to thee. Giv us good houeesarge and trU, To loolr the cubiniTlwwn - And arv.ints ilodging at our cali, And sbaking at our t'rown ; The poor, howver worthy ihey, We'll treat quite scornfully - Then xpence pay. cocuinunion day, Aai settle up with thee. Waáu disdiiu to toil and swent, Like girls of vuigar brood 1 Of labor, give us not a bit, For physic or for food ; And if tor lack of exerciso, Wo Uck the siatnina Ofthoeewo tran)lc nd deapiss- We'll lay it all to tliee. Jf any curs we have forgot, That on a voiary Fanhion lete tall, withliold it not, Bnt iond il gricvously : And if too hard the mill-ton light Fwr rrail hutnanity - "Wa'll never bUme oureelvee a mite, Bat lay il all to thee. Ycb, give us cofleo, wine nd ten, And hot things introduce. The ntomnch's warm bath thrice a day, To wenken and reduce 1 And if, defying nature's laws, Dyapepuc we nniet bc - Wejcorn to uearch for human cause, But lay it all to thee. The two circulaiions - the Nervous and the Sangninous.