. Overheard in a garden. d such a Gay, Chromatic Sense, it turned his ^ The Very Latest Thing ? he said; <*Long have I sighed for something New !O Eoses Yellow, White, and Red, Let others sip; mine shall he Blue I The Flavor was not Nice, t is true(He felt a Pain inside his Waist). It is not well to overdo,Said he, ^^a just-acquired taste. The Shower passed ; he joined in hasteHis friends. With condescension great, Said he, ^^I fear your time you waste;JReal Roses are q^idte out of date. He argued «arly, argued late, Till what was erst a Harmless Pose Grew to a Pierce, InordinateCra
. Overheard in a garden. d such a Gay, Chromatic Sense, it turned his ^ The Very Latest Thing ? he said; <*Long have I sighed for something New !O Eoses Yellow, White, and Red, Let others sip; mine shall he Blue I The Flavor was not Nice, t is true(He felt a Pain inside his Waist). It is not well to overdo,Said he, ^^a just-acquired taste. The Shower passed ; he joined in hasteHis friends. With condescension great, Said he, ^^I fear your time you waste;JReal Roses are q^idte out of date. He argued «arly, argued late, Till what was erst a Harmless Pose Grew to a Pierce, InordinateCraving for Artificial Rose. He haunted Garden Parties, Shows, Wherever Ladies Congregate,And in their Bonnets thrust his nose His Craving Fierce to Satiate. 2 17 At last he chanced, sad to relate,Into a Caterers with his Pose, And there Pneumonia was his FateFrom sitting on an Ice Cream Rose. 0 Reader, shun the Harmless Pose. They buried him, with scant lament,Beneath a Common Brier-E,ose, And wrote: Here Lies a 18
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