"In tea-cup times"! The style of dress
Would meet your beauty, I confess;
Belinda-like, the patch you'd wear;
I picture you the powdered hair,--
You'd make a charming Shepherdess!
And I--no doubt--could well express
Sir Plume's complete conceitedness,--
Could poise a clouded cane with care
"In tea-cup times"!
The parts would fit precisely--yes;
We should achieve a huge success!
You should disdain, and I despair,
With quite the true Augustan air;
But ... could I love you more, or less,--
"In tea-cup times"?
--_Austin Dobson_