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"The Social World"! O what a world it is -- / Where full-grown men cut capers in the German, / Cotillion, waltz, or what you will, and whizz / And spin and hop and sprawl about like mermen! / I wonder if our future Grant or Sherman, / As these youths pass their time, is passing his -- / If eagles ever come from painted eggs, / Or deeds of arms succeed to deeds of legs.
I know they tell us about Waterloo: / How, "foremost fighting," fell the evening's / dancers.