AGAINST PRIDE IN CLOTHES.

1 WHY should our garments, made to hide
Our parents’ shame, provoke our pride?
The art of dress did ne’er begin,

Till Eve, our mother, Icarn’d to sin.

2 When first she put the covering on,
Her robe of innocence was gone;
And yet her children vainly boast
In the sad marks of glory lost.

3 How proud we are, how fond to show
Our clothes, and call them rich and new;
When the poor sheep and silkworm wore
That very clothing long before!