When Stretch'd On One's Bed
Jane Austen
1775 to 1817
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If a company dines
Can attract our attention or Ears!
Of our Dance-loving friends at a Ball!
That may busy the world as it goes!
How little the Bells,
For the grandest affairs
Our own bodily pains
How slight one's concern
We can feel on no subject besides.
O'er the Sauces and Stews,
For our friends and our souls to provide.
The Corse may be carried
Tis in health and in ease
On the best that the Season affords!
How short is one's muse
How little one cares
Ev'ry faculty chains;
For the waltzes and reels
Ring they Peels, toll they Knells,
To conjecture or learn
When stretch'd on one's bed
Or the Guests, be they Beggars or Lords.
Which precludes alike thought or repose,
We the power must seize
The Bride may be married,
How little one feels
And touch nor our hopes nor our fears.
How little one minds
With a fierce-throbbing head,
What their flounces or hearts may befall.
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