Little KITTY LORIMER, <br />Fair, and young, and witty, <br />What has brought your ladyship <br />Rambling to the City? <br /> <br />All the Stags in Capel Court <br />Saw her lightly trip it; <br />All the lads of Stock Exchange <br />Twigg'd her muff and tippet. <br /> <br />With a sweet perplexity, <br />And a mystery pretty, <br />Threading through Threadneedle Street, <br />Trots the little KITTY. <br /> <br />What was my astonishment— <br />What was my compunction, <br />When she reached the Offices <br />Of the Didland Junction! <br /> <br />Up the Didland stairs she went, <br />To the Didland door, Sir; <br />Porters lost in wonderment, <br />Let her pass before, Sir. <br /> <br />'Madam,' says the old chief Clerk, <br />'Sure we can't admit ye.' <br />'Where's the Didland Junction deed?' <br />Dauntlessly says KITTY. <br /> <br />'If you doubt my honesty, <br />Look at my receipt, Sir.' <br />Up then jumps the old chief Clerk, <br />Smiling as he meets her. <br /> <br />KITTY at the table sits <br />(Whither the old Clerk leads her), <br />'I deliver this,' she says, <br />'As my act and deed, Sir.' <br /> <br />When I heard these funny words <br />Come from lips so pretty; <br />This, I thought, should surely be <br />Subject for a ditty. <br /> <br />What! are ladies stagging it? <br />Sure, the more's the pity; <br />But I've lost my heart to her,— <br />Naughty little KITTY.<br /><br />William Makepeace Thackeray<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-doe-in-the-city/
