And whereon everybody did declare

They were the nicest folks beneath the sun,

And Julia did most naturally stare

To hear the happy thing that they had done,

And longed to see arrangements instantly begun.

LXVI.

The daughters three received exact directions

How to do all things and go everywhere:

Concerning all their musical selections

And all about the “skirts” they had to wear,

How they should dress and e'en adorn their hair,

What rings to show, whether diamond or not;

Injunctions to observe the greatest care

In choice of stockings, and I don't know what.

(They were to be like fairies in Calypso's grot.)

LXVII.

Of daughters all they were the most adored

I honestly believe. Mamma impressed

The fact upon them that a certain Lord

Was of her family, tho' dispossessed

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