VARIOUS VERSE. VANITY FAIR.
Silken and satin and velvet floss, Whetting the hunger of longing eyes, Draperies softer than woodland moss,' Colours as bright &s the summer skies ;' These we the wares that the merchant cries, As music streams on languid air • Burdened with many a maiden's sigha In the golden mart of Vanity Fair. There is a diamond fit to emboss The shield of a Paris j there, too, lies A song whose surges of passion toss With such art as fops and gallants prize ; ; The slave of fashion struts here and buys, Jostling, or hustled by men of prayer, With often a fool in critic's guise In the golden mart of Vanity Fair. An outcast lone where yon 'roads cross, Ever a trade in spectacles plies That whoso wearcth sees pomp and (!toss From the gilded stalls in vapour rise, Fabrics, whose hue with tha iris vies, Change to the sables ofjgrim despair/ And the ruby's flame ebbs low and dies In the golden mart of Vanity Fair. t/ENVOJ. Prince, enough is a word to the wise, Let others flutter in frenzy there, Folly may loiter, jbut honour flies In the golden mart of Vanity Fair. —Pall Mall Gazette.
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Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 157, 31 December 1898, Page 2 (Supplement)
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201VARIOUS VERSE. VANITY FAIR. Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 157, 31 December 1898, Page 2 (Supplement)
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