The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-31 00:00:00

"0 DE

AR, HOW WE LONG TO
GET MARRIED."

ADDRESSED TO TUE TWELVE UNMARRIED LA-
DIES WHO, BY REASON OF THEIR BEAUTY
AND INNUBILITY, WERE SELECTED AT THE
LATE CORONATION TO BEAR HER MAJESTY'S
ROBE.

Here LovE
His golden shafts employs, here lights
His constant lamp, here waves his purple wings,
Here reigns and revels. MILTON.

O dear, what will become of me ;
0 dear, what shall I do ;
Nobody coming to many me,
Nobody coming to woo. BURNS.

Ah! Love has been busy of late
'Mid the brave and the bright in " high places,"
With manifold claspings of waists
And kissings 'twixt pairs of fond faces;
Lady Villiers hath settled her vows— •
Russell, after her, little time tarried—
And third of that beautiful list,
0 you know Lady Somerville's married.
If marriage, then, be so divine,
And so great be its bliss where it blesses,
What wonder if England's fair maids
Solicitous woo its caresses?—
What marvel, what wonder extreme,
If its flames and its fervours be carried
Wong the sweet-hearted Vestals at Court ?
And they sigh, " How we long to get married."
Ah, yes ! lovely Virginal Twelve !
Who bore at your Queen's Coronation
Her jewelried robe, while ye looked
Queens yourselves,—for the world's adoration.
High Beauties ! say, chide not your lips
(Like the Ladies when Sisera tarried,)
That the bridegroom anti chariot delays—
For, " 0 dear, how ye long to get married."
There's you—O magnificent you—
Gorgeous Anna Elizabeth Howard !
And your ravishing sister, o'er whom
Nature's brilliantest lustres are shower'd—
Oh ! confess your voluptuous souls
At the golden idea to be carried,
And you sing, as you sigh for a lord,
" 0 dear, how we long to get married."

Then you, too, fair Bourerie, you_
Hyacin thine-like—Flower of splendour—.
And ye, sister Pagets, who bloom
Liond of hair, and with eye blue and tender.
0-bevy of beautiful girls,
All too long by an age have ye tarried—
Sweet sparklers in satin and pearls
" 0 dear, how ye long to get married."

You also, dear Ida de Hay—
And you, thrice adorable Stanhope—
() sure through your fine-flowing veins
Inexpressible sweetnesses ran up,
As your soul o'er the chaste ideal
Of hope matrimonial tarried,
And your hearts made a throb, that would say
" 0 dear, how we long to get married I"

Sweet Lennox, fair Cowper, gay West,
And Grimstone, the fair Frederica—
Should your tongues but declare of your hearts
How eloquent each were the speaker.
Yet all your hearts' notions would still
In one sentence enchantii4 be carried,
And your lips would in honey distil
" 0 dear, how we long to get married."
0 where are they, where are they, then,
Those lordly and lovely deceivers,
Who shall be, of your virginal hearts,
The bright and the bonny bereavers ?
Are they Tories ?—O no !—for sweet maids,
If not out of your lives you'd be harried,
'Twere better Dori Juan himself
Were your spouse, than to such to be married.
No, no : in their sun-dawn of life,
In their glory, and manhood, and beauty,
There are throngs of illustrious youths
Who would far better love ye and suit ye ;
And though Wedlock's shafts they may long
• Have despised, and successfully parried—
Show—fair maids—your unmatchable charms,
And their magic will soon get you married.
What need to point out or recite
To your quick comprehensions vivacious—
Of Rtissells, and Berkeleys, and Greys,
Of 3.liltons, and Gordons the gracious ?
For, ere we should finish the list •
Your hearts would be conquered. and carried,
And the blush on your bosom and brew. .
Would betoken your wish to be married.
Already around your fair beds '
Sweet dreams hymeneal are stealing ;
Bright images shine o'er your heads,
And bell-chimes are cheerily pealing.
Sweet Virgins ! Sweet Dian-like Twelve !
By your hands, and the gage by you carried,
I foresee, 'ere December be here,' •
You'll with Whigs all be cosily married.

The abuses of an unreformed Parliament, and its
subserviency to Wm. Pitt and his Tory supporters, were
manifest by the numbers who voted in March, 1818, fo.
a Bill to indemnify Ministers against their abuses durinc,
the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. In the Lords'
the principal division was 93 to 27, and in the Commons
199 to only 64, so that on so important a question more
than half the Members were absent. A few days after
the Bill passed there was a very numerous meeting of
the electors of Westminster,
In Palace-yard, who re-
solved to adopt measures for a reforin in Parliament,
which was supported with much energy by Sir Francis
Burdett,