As 'legal representative' <br />I read a missive not my own, <br />On new designs the senders give <br />For clothes, in tints as shown. <br /> <br />Here figure blouses, gowns for tea, <br />And presentation-trains of state, <br />Charming ball-dresses, millinery, <br />Warranted up to date. <br /> <br />And this gay-pictured, spring-time shout <br />Of Fashion, hails what lady proud? <br />Her who before last year was out <br />Was costumed in a shroud.<br /><br />Thomas Hardy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-circular/
