The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) 3 – Anonymous · Verses Across
Literature · Humor
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) 3By Helen Avery Cone
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Literature · Humor
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) 3
By Helen Avery Cone
AnonymousEnglish
The Puritan Spring Beauties stood freshly clad for church; A thrush, white-breasted, o'er them sat singing on his perch. "Happy be! for fair are ye!" the gentle singer told them; But presently a buff-coat Bee came booming up to scold them. "Vanity, oh, vanity! Young maids, beware of vanity!" Grumbled out the buff-coat Bee, Half parson-like, half soldierly.
The sweet-faced maidens trembled, with pretty, pinky blushes, Convinced that it was wicked to listen to the thrushes; And when that shady afternoon, I chanced that way to pass, They hung their little bonnets down and looked into the grass. All because the buff-coat Bee Lectured them so solemnly-- "Vanity, oh, vanity! Young maids, beware of vanity!"
