. The Buntling ball, a Græco-American play; being a poetical satire on New York society . ese thy base descendants, them that love Gross pelf and pander to the parvenu ! For such am I, even such, and better far The laboring Scythias westward-pointed prow Nor me nor mine had hither borne unscathed Through the strait Narrows; but that either strand Had clashing met, and whelmed oil Sandy 1 look The great ships vigor in tumultuous u Thus were averted this unseemly Ball. 14 THE BUNTLING BALL. Its hollow and absurd extravaganceChecked by the grim economy of death ! Chorus of Knickerbocker Young Men
. The Buntling ball, a Græco-American play; being a poetical satire on New York society . ese thy base descendants, them that love Gross pelf and pander to the parvenu ! For such am I, even such, and better far The laboring Scythias westward-pointed prow Nor me nor mine had hither borne unscathed Through the strait Narrows; but that either strand Had clashing met, and whelmed oil Sandy 1 look The great ships vigor in tumultuous u Thus were averted this unseemly Ball. 14 THE BUNTLING BALL. Its hollow and absurd extravaganceChecked by the grim economy of death ! Chorus of Knickerbocker Young Men. Old man, do not be nonsensical In your views about New York ;You are needlessly forensical For a potentate in Pork !Why not recollect with gratitude That we throng your mansion wide,And express no moral platitude Upon Knickerbocker pride ?Since the days when dull old Trinity Was a temple far up town,And a girl was thought divinity If she owned but one silk gown;Since the days when each festivity They would all by twelve forsake,And the dominant proclivity Was for lemonade-and-cake ;. 16 THE BUNTLING BALL. Since the days when aristocracy Of the gender known as male,Would esteem it vain plutocracy To exploit a swallow-tail;Since the days when customs manacle Was a bond of rigid force,—Since the days thus puritanical, We have altered things, of the years are cruel pillagers, As they lay old fashions low,And to live like simple villagers Is no longer comi?ie il progenitors (peace be with them !) Were a very stupid lot,And so little we agree with them That we imitate them were certainly respectable, As with pride we now declare,But we find it more delectable If we draw the line just to fling aside all flattery, THE BUNTUNG HALL. And to speak as hits the mark,They were narrow as the Battery When compared with Central if now they had their say to us, They would turn us all, we office-clerks, and pay to us Hardly anything a
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