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Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889

She was a Beauty

By Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896)

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.