Queer sights we every day do find, As the world we pass along, The ladies' hoops and crinolines, And then their large chignons; To come out in French fashion, Of course we must indeed, And have a dandy horse, The famed Velocipede. * * * The Velocipedes are all the go, In country and in town, The patent dandy hobby-horse It everywhere goes down; A wheel before and one behind, Its back is long and narrow, It's a cross between the treading mill And a Razor Grinder's barrow. * * * The railways they will be done brown, The steamboats too, beside, For folks when they go out of town The Velocipede will ride; But I'd have you all look out for squalls Or else you may depend You will go down, dandy horse and all, And bruise your latter end. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: OSCAR HUMMEL by EDGAR LEE MASTERS GOOD AND BAD LUCK by HEINRICH HEINE SONNET: AUTUMN by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW A LITTLE PARABLE by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH A THRESHER OF WHEAT TO THE WYNDES by JOACHIM DU BELLAY |