THE EDUCATED UNDINE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 40, 4 October 1890, Page 3

THE EDUCATED UNDINE.

She can write in verse ecstatic, She can sing songs operatic, She can play the harp, piano and guitar, She can teach the Delsarte gesture, She can pose in classic vesture, But she cannot sew a button for her pa. She can prove man’s evolution In the ages’ revolution, All the constellations she can trace out in the sky ; She can give the nomenclature <>f all elements in nature, But she cannot hake a pudding or a pie. She makes all the fancy stitches Ami embroiders like the witches, She can make a crazy quilt or mazier rug, She just dotes on Robert Browning, < >f all verse his is the crowning, But her mental work is talking to her pug. She’s composed of silks that rustle And a huge receding bustle. And of diamonds, pearls and tools of Cupid's war ; She was made for dudes to gaze on, Or for fools to get a craze on, But God only knows what else he made her for.