Fugitive Poetry. 1600–1878/Fashionable Wedding

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Fashionable Wedding.
Four-and-twenty groomsmen, all in a row;
Four-and-twenty dandies dressed from top to toe;
Four-and-twenty grimaces, four-and-twenty smiles,
And the carriages extending four-and-twenty miles,
 ​Four-and-twenty bridesmaids dressed in hoop and feather,
Eight-and-forty flunkies standing all together,
     The bride ringed and jewelled,
      The groom gloved and glum,
     And both of them look foolish,
      And both of them are dumb;
     A thousand spectators
      To see the pretty match,
     A thousand tongues to whisper,
      "He's made quite a catch."
     Eight-and-forty ninnies
      Marching out of church,
     Like so many schoolboys
      Running from the birch.
Oh, what a sight to look upon as ever I did see,
The world makes a great fuss for nothing, seems to me.

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