Gossip! Poem by Benjamin Cutler Clark

Oh! Mrs. A--, have you not heard
The news around the town?
'Tis said that Mr. B-- was seen
To look at Mrs. Brown!

Then Mr. C--, I really heard,—
Don't tell it for your life,—
Has just determin'd, only think,
To make Miss D-- his wife!

And Mr. E-- is going to—
I promis'd not to tell—
Be married to Miss F--, down street;
'Tis thought that she'll do well.

The news is now, that young Miss G--
Is dead in love with H--;
But now, they say, he does not care,
He's courting Sally Baich.

I-- call'd on me the other day,
And ask'd me if I could
Speak a good word for him to J--;
But do you think I would?

Why, there is K--, that prims so much,
And dresses very gay;
They tell me she's engag'd to L--,
But I doubt all they say!

What do you think of M--'s new coat?
N-- says it don't look well.
Dear me! what makes O-- flirt so much?
That P--'s a perfect swell!

Q-- call'd on me the other day,
And ask'd me what I thought
Of the new dress that R-- had on,
The other day she bought.

The bonnet that Miss S-- had on,
They said, came o'er the sea;
But young Miss T-- said U-- told her,
'Twas bought up town of V--.

W-- thinks so much of X--,
Y-- says Z--'s lips are down!
And now I've told you all the news
There is around the town.