DECLARATION OF WAR

 OH, would I resembled

The country girls fair,
Who rosy-red ribbons

And yellow hats wear!

To believe I was pretty

I thought was allow'd;
In the town I believed it

When by the youth vow'd.


Now that Spring hath return'd,

All my joys disappear;
The girls of the country

Have lured him from here.


To change dress and figure,

Was needful I found,
My bodice is longer,

My petticoat round.


My hat now is yellow.


My bodice like snow;
The clover to sickle

With others I go.


Something pretty, e'er long

Midst the troop he explores;
The eager boy signs me

To go within doors.


I bashfully go,--

Who I am, he can't trace;
He pinches my cheeks,

And he looks in my face.


The town girl now threatens

You maidens with war;
Her twofold charms pledges .


Of victory are.


1803.

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