GOOD reader! I refer you to Squire Planta, Have visited this far-famed spot, and want a I'll tell you in three stanzas what they say. II It forms an oblong square with a piazza, Parterres and lime-tree alleys in the centre: There's not an inch, I'm sure, from Ghent to Gaza, Superb jet-d'eau, which strikes you as you enter: It is a focus where each principle Of thought and act concentrate to a spot; Is taught in sin and science-both are taught! IV It is the heart of Paris, and impels And, here and there, a black-eyed Grissette nursing. V Here new-come English ladies flock to stare At all the wonders with their sleepy faces: I'm often led to think, I do declare, The ugliest come, on purpose to disgrace us: |