Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
She was a Beauty
By Henry Cuyler Bunner (18551896)[From Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere. 1884.]
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When Madison was President:
And quite coquettish in her ways—
On conquests of the heart intent.
Wooed her in stiff, old-fashioned phrase—
She was a beauty in the days
When Madison was President.
Shall go, my Rose, who date from Hayes,
I hope you’ll wear her sweet content
Of whom tradition lightly says:
She was a beauty in the days
When Madison was President.