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So, or in gay and gorgeous gallery,
Where, amid splendours, like to those that far
Flame backward from the sun's invisible car,
Thou lookedst forth, as there the evening star;
Oh, Leonina! fair wert thou to see,
And unforgotten shall thine image be.
II.
O Leonina! whether thou wert seen
Waiting, upon the Isis' margent green,
The boats that should have passed there and did not;
Or at the ball, admiring crowds between,
To partner academical and slow
Teaching, upon the light Slavonic toe,
Polkas that were not, only should have been;
Or, in the crowded gallery crushed, didst hear
For bonnets white, blue, pink, the ladies' cheer
Multiplied while divided, and endure
(Thyself being seen) to see, not hear, rehearse
The long, long Proses, and the Latin Verse—
O Leonina! thou wert tired, I'm sure.
