In a neighboring block there was found, in three calls,

    Total want, long continued, of camel's-hair shawls;

    And a suffering family, whose case exhibits

    The most pressing need of real ermine tippets;

    One deserving young lady almost unable

    To survive for the want of a new Russian sable;

    Still another, whose tortures have been most terrific

    Ever since the sad loss of the steamer

     Pacific

    ,

    In which were engulfed, not friend or relation

    (For whose fate she, perhaps, might have found consolation,

    Or borne it, at least, with serene resignation),

    But the choicest assortment of French sleeves and collars

    Ever sent out from Paris, worth thousands of dollars,

    And all as to style most

     recherché

    and rare,

    The want of which leaves her with nothing to wear,

    And renders her life so drear and dyspeptic

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