SONNET.

I IDOLIZE the ladies. They are fairies

That spiritualize this earth of ours;

From heavenly hotbeds most delightful flowers,

Or choice cream-cheeses from celestial dairies.

But learning, in its barbarous seminaries,

Gives the dear creatures many wretched hours;

And on their gossamer intellects sternly showers

Science, with all its horrid accessories.

Now, seriously, the only things, I think,

In which young ladies should instructed be,

Are stocking-mending, love, and cookery, -

Accomplishments that very soon will sink,

Since Fluxions, now, and Sanskrit conversation

Always form part of female education.