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As when a beauteous nymph decays, / We say she's past her dancing days; / So poets lose their feet by time, / And can no longer dance in rhyme. /
Your annual bard had rather chose / To celebrate your birth in prose; / Yet merry folks who want by chance / A pair to make a country dance, / Call the old housekeeper, and get her / To fill a place, for want of better; /