Our Peerage we've remodelled on an intellectual basis, Which certainly is rough on our hereditary races-- (They are going to remodel it in England.) The Brewers and the Cotton Lords no longer seek admission, And Literary Merit meets with proper recognition-- (As Literary Merit does in England!) Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens-- Lord Fildes and Viscount Millais (when they come) we'll welcome sweetly-- And then, this happy country will be Anglicised completely! It really is surprising What a thorough Anglicising We've brought about--Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements, Which we dutifully offer to our mother-land! [Illustration] AN ENGLISH GIRL A WONDERFUL joy our eyes to bless, In her magnificent comeliness, Is an English girl of eleven stone two, And five foot ten in her dancing shoe! She follows the hounds, and on she pounds-- The "field" tails off and the muffs diminish-- Over the hedges and brooks she bounds-- Straight as a crow, from find to finish. At cricket, her kin will lose or win-- She and her maids, on grass and clover, Eleven maids out--eleven maids in-- (And perhaps an occasional "maiden over"). Go search the world and search the sea, Then come you home and sing with me There's no such gold and no such pearl As a bright and beautiful English girl! With a ten-mile spin she stretches her limbs, She golfs, she punts, she rows, she swims-- She plays, she sings, she dances, too, From ten or eleven till all is blue! At ball or drum, till small hours come (Chaperon's fan conceals her yawning), She'll waltz away like a teetotum, And never go home till daylight's dawning. Lawn tennis may share her favours fair-- Her eyes a-dance and her cheeks a-glowing-- Down comes her hair, but what does she care? It's all her own and it's worth the showing! Go search the world and search the sea, Then come you home and sing with me There's no such gold and no such pearl As a bright and beautiful English girl!