Lines on Hearing it Declared that No Women Were So Handsome as the English

TY, the attribute of Heaven!

In various forms to mortals given,

With magic skill enslaves mankind,

As sportive fancy sways the mind.

Search the wide world, go where you will,

TY pursues you still;

Capricious Nature knows no bound,

Her unexhausted gifts are found In ev'ry clime, in ev'ry face,

Each has its own peculiar grace.  To

IA's frolic scenes repair,

There reigns the tyny

RE;

The mincing step­the slender waist,

The lip with bright vermilion grac'd:

The short pert nose­the pearly teeth,

With the small dimpled chin beneath,­ The social converse, gay and free,

The smart

OT and

EE.

IA boasts the melting fair,

The pointed step, the haughty air,

Th' empassion'd tone, the languid eye,

The song of thrilling harmony;

Insidious

VE conceal'd in smiles That charms­and as it charms beguiles.  View

AN

DS, whose finish'd forms The wond'ring sculptor's fancy warms!

There let thy ravish'd eye behold The softest gems of Nature's mould;

Each charm, that

DS learnt to trace,

From

AN's bewitching face.  Imperious

EY's pride is

In Beauty's rich luxuriant mien;

The dark and sparkling orbs that glow Beneath a polish'd front of snow:

The auburn curl that zephyr blows About the cheek of brightest rose:

The shorten'd zone, the swelling breast,

With costly gems profusely drest;

Reclin'd in softly-waving bow'rs,

On painted beds of fragrant flow'rs;

Where od'rous canopies dispense

IA's spices to the sense;

Where listless indolence and ease,

Proclaim the sov'reign wish, to please. 'Tis thus, capricious

CY shows How far her frolic empire goes !

On

IA's sands, on

NE snow,

We trace her steps where'er we go;

The

SH Maid with timid grace;

The tawny

AN 's varnish'd face;

The jetty

AN; the fair Nurs'd by

PA's softer air;

With various charms delight the mind,

For

CY governs

LL

ND.