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Fuess and Stearns, comps. The Little Book of Society Verse. 1922.

By. Henry Cuyler Bunner

“She Was a Beauty”

SHE was a beauty in the days

When Madison was President,

And quite coquettish in her ways,—

On conquests of the heart intent.

Grandpapa, on his right knee bent,

Wooed her in stiff, old-fashioned phrase,—

She was a beauty in the days

When Madison was President.

And when your roses where hers went

Shall go, my Rose, who date from Hayes,

I hope you’ll wear her sweet content

Of whom tradition lightly says:

She was a beauty in the days

When Madison was President.