40 SELECT POETRY

Messrs. Stocxs from 'Change Alley,! in crimson
array ;

The twin-brother Larxspurs, two fops of the day ;
With light-hearted CotumB1NE, playing the fool,
And footing away, like a frolic from school ;

Then a distant relation, ‘twas said, of the bride,
Watkr-Lizy, a nymph from the rivulet’s side;
And last, hand-in-hand, at the end of the train,
Vriozetta and Datsy, from Hazel-nut lane.
Mezereon had fully designed to be there,

But was ouly half dressed, and obliged to forbear ;?
And the Evenine Primrose was pale with cha-

grin
That her cap did not come till the day had closed in.
So each remained pouting behind in the shade,
As winding along moved the brilliant parade.

At length the fair temple appeared to their view,
All blushing with beauty and spangled with dew:
Tall hollyhock pillars encircled it round,

With tendrils of pea and sweet eglantine® bound ;
The roof was a trellis of myrtle and vine,

Which knots and festoons of nasturtium combine:
Surmounting each pillar, the cornice displayed
The midsummer star-wort, relieving the shade;

1°Change Alley — for Exchange Alley, a passage neat
where the old Royal Exchange stood, much frequented by
dealers in Stock, as money is sometimes called.

* The flowers of the mezereon appear on the naked stem,
before the leaves are unfolded.

3 Eglantine—the sweet-brier.

‘ Trellisema lattice, or frame of cross-barred work of
wood, &c.