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Excerpt from The Opening Ball of the Lindell Hotel
Now listen, dear reader, a story I tell, Of the ball that took place at the Lindell Hotel The structure, itself, is an ornament fair To the city to which it belongs, I declare. And, allow me to say That at this present day Speaking now in a pure architectural way That in planning, and carving, and laying the stones, Was a work that was worthy of Inigo Jones, (said Inigo being an architect true, Who ?ourished in London To inaugurate this undertaking so great, Was decidedly proper to give a great fete.
So the talk of the town, 'mong the great and the small Was of nothing excepting This elegant ball. The ladies - the darlings - with long, anxious Selected their dresses, their ribbons and laces, And the thought of their life And the chief of their cares, Was the dread that another's Were finer than theirs.
Those sweet ones who daily the hospitals throng, Said The patients will certainly now get along.
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