Classic Poem

Praise of Dolly, The: A Song

Let others sing of this or that,
Be gay, or melancholy;
I'd pass alone, in gleesome chat,
My hours with smiling DOLLY.

Of all the maids that trip the green,
Devoid of pride and folly;
There's none so handsome, boasts a mein
So graceful half as DOLLY.

Her auburn locks the zephyrs kiss,
She's blithesome, fair and jolly;
Ye gods, I ask no greater bliss,
But grant me smiling DOLLY.

Then unconcern'd I'll pass them bye,
Coquetish PHILL and MOLLY;
My fancy ever more employ,
The lovely peerless DOLLY.English