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Fuess and Stearns, comps. The Little Book of Society Verse. 1922.

By. Frank Dempster Sherman

An Old Rondo

HER scuttle Hatt is wondrous wide,

All furrie, too, on every side;

Soe out She trippeth daintylie,

To lett ye Youth full well to see

How fayre ye mayde is for ye Bryde.

A lyttle puffed, may be, bye Pryde,

She yet soe lovelye is that I’d

A Shillynge give to tye, perdie,

Her scuttle Hatt.

Ye Coales into ye Scuttle slide,

Soe in her Hatt wolde I, and hide

To steale some Kisses—two or three:

But synce She never asketh me,

Ye scornful Cynick doth deride

Her scuttle Hatt!