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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.

whom thy danglers have ere this forgot, 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.