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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The True Grecian Bend - -Author: Larry Leigh - -Release Date: March 04, 2021 [eBook #64689] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: deaurider, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was - produced from images generously made available by The Internet - Archive) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TRUE GRECIAN BEND *** - -[Illustration: P. 18.] - - - - - THE - TRUE GRECIAN BEND - - A - STORY IN VERSE - - BY - LARRY LEIGH, - - “Whence and what art thou, execrable shape?”--MILTON - - _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS_ - - - NEW YORK - _J. S. REDFIELD, PUBLISHER_ - 140 FULTON STREET - 1868 - - - - - Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by - - J. S. REDFIELD, - - In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States - for the Eastern District of New York. - - - EDWARD O. JENKINS, - _PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER_, - No. 20 North William St. - - - - -[Illustration] - - - - - THE - TRUE GRECIAN BEND. - - - A woman in France got the spinal disease, - And from that sad moment she had no more ease; - To add to her anguish, she very soon found, - Oh, horrors! her back was becoming quite round. - - The spasms of physical pain she endured, - Were keen, I assure you, and could not be cured; - But bad as these were, it seems, on the whole, - They could not compare with the pangs of her soul. - - For I must inform you, O dear reader mine-- - (I’m in my third verse, and indeed it is time)-- - That our stylish Parisian was Fashion’s dear slave, - And to its sweet service her brain and time gave. - - If she had been poet or artist or sage, - Or one of “the women,” so called, “of the age,” - With missions to Art, or the indigent poor, - Her crooked vertébra she might well endure. - - For ’tis of no consequence, surely, I say, - If strong-minded women who flaunt in our day - Their rights to more freedom for work and for speech - Are placed by disease quite beyond the world’s reach. - - Such women belong to that low, common kind - Who assert that an active condition of mind - Or of hands (me! how vulgar!) does make, after all, - What we a true woman can worthily call. - - But say, of what consequence, pray, can it be - If females with such vulgar notions, you see, - Are forced to stop work and all bold agitations - Of questions important to churches and nations - - Because of a weakness of brain and of spine? - (Both organs, alas! being in a _decline_.) - It matters but little, if women like these, - Are deprived of all usefulness, comfort, and ease. - - But when a fair daughter of Fashion--a treasure, - Who lives but to seek and to find her own pleasure, - A victim becomes to keen pains that do rack, - To pains that quite ruin the shape of her back-- - - Here, here is a tale that makes the heart bleed! - A tale wholly fit for a poet indeed! - Before I have finished, however, you’ll find - That sunlight with shadow is herein combined. - - At present the shadow rests over my maid, - While wrapped in reflection she sits in the shade. - Her brain being small, is quite like the pot - Which, owing to smallness, so soon became hot. - - It seems at this moment, in truth, quite on fire, - Harassed as it is with the spasms of ire, - That seize it in thinking of hopes all destroyed, - Her figure quite ruined! her future a void! - - For I must inform you, our “charmante Française,” - Deluded as all of us were in those days, - Considered it really a feminine charm, - To carry the figure--including the arm-- - - According to Nature in some slight degree, - With freedom and unstudied grace, don’t you see? - A form finely poised, and free in its motion, - Is surely a sign--at least, such was the notion-- - - Of youth and of health. Even some thought that grace - Had a meaning and charm quite beyond a doll face. - But all such ideas have of course now gone by - In times when the fashions do Nature defy. - - As I was just saying, our “charmante Française,” - Deluded as all of us were in those days, - Was tortured with agony now at the thought - Of the change which the spinal affection had wrought - - In her whose fine figure, a short time ago, - Arrayed in rare furbelows, made such a show - On the “Boulevards;” also when on her white mare, - Erect and in “stove-pipe” she pranced with the air - - Which marks the great “parvenues” out as that class - Whose eyes, looking over you, say, “Let me pass! - Do you know who I am? I’ve a carriage and four, - A poodle and twenty-five servants and more.” - - But I am digressing. The subject is great, - And I fear I shall never get through at this rate. - To return to “mes moutons,” I mean to my maid; - We left her, remember, in wrath and in shade. - -[Illustration] - - She sat in the shade, for she feared that the light - Would bring to her vision that horrible sight, - A female with vertebral column askew, - And now as she sat here she dreaded the view. - - But at the next moment a thought bright as fire, - Seemed to burn in her eyes and to chase away ire; - She rose, in a tremor of joy, from the gloom, - And opening the shutters, made bright the whole room. - - She then all at once did proceed, with a rush, - To fasten a pillow, with cheeks all a-flush, - Just under her skirt, quite behind at the back, - And then she donned quickly a hat and a sack-- - - Seized quicker a parasol; then without fear, - She faced the long mirror with eyes all a-cheer - With some inspiration, that strangely did lend - To a spine badly bent an additional bend. - - Pray what was she doing? you ask, all amazed, - Perhaps you imagine the girl was quite crazed, - Or trying a cure--and that’s madness enough-- - With “similia similibus” ideas and such stuff. - - Oh, no! my dear Reader; she’s simply intent - On proving in practice the worth of a bent, - Which entered her mind a few moments ago, - And set all her brain and her heart in a glow. - - In short, all creations of genius, you know, - Originate, so they say, always just so; - Quite all of a sudden, undreamt of, they’re born - In the brain which seeks after to give them a form. - - The form which our heroine sought now to give - To her noble creation was, sure as I live, - A crook in the back and a crook in the arm, - And with these same crooks she means yet to charm - - Her circle of former admirers and friends, - And, after a ripe preparation, intends - To make her “_début_” in a style very new, - Unknown to the crowd or e’en the rare _few_. - - Oh, view her, as now she continues to pass - Up and down, while she studies herself in the glass! - With parasol raised very high in the air, - And spine really taking a curve, I declare, - - Exceeding by far the long crook that disease - Had wrought there in hours void of rest and of ease, - And yet, I assure you, her face glows with smiles, - While practicing poses the hours she beguiles. - - But while I still watched her, a cloud thin as air, - Passed over the features that now seemed so fair; - With eyes on the mirror, I heard her exclaim, - “Oh! dear me! oh! dear me! I’ve lost it again.” - - She takes a new bend--then cries, “That’s not it!” - Here, dear reader mine, she was seized with a fit - Of abdominal colic, which only did serve - To add, you perceive, to her back a new curve. - - The full extra curve produced by the pain, - Brought strangely the smiles to her features again; - She cried, “Oh! kind Providence surely did send - This spasm to give me the ‘true Grecian bend!’ - - “The ‘true Grecian bend!’ here, here is a name - Which soon will acquire a most glorious fame! - It hides my poor hump altogether, you see, - And a leader of fashion again I will be!” - - Since the colic referred to, by Providence sent, - Two weeks had gone by, and our damsel had bent - Whatever of strength she possessed to attain - The “true Grecian bend,” and it was not in vain. - - The day now arrived for the startling “début,” - And our heroine smiling emerged to the view - Of the Boulevards, where “tout le monde” in a maze - At the strange apparatus in wonder did gaze. - - This strange apparatus, as I before said, - Perched on heels that supported a hump on the head, - A hump on the back and a crook in the arm - Presented a vision entitled to charm - - The eyes of all artists; for sure ’tis their duty - To recognize always the true curve of beauty; - And who can deny that here was a curve - Sufficiently curving as model to serve? - - The world, as I said, at first in a maze, - With sneers at the strange apparatus did gaze; - But when this same world at last did discover - The “strange apparatus” was she, and no other, - - Who only last year the gay fashion did lead, - And lived on the Boulevard Malesherbes indeed! - They suddenly found that her present strange style - Was but a new fashion she’d set all the while. - - Upon the discovery that, without doubt, - The humps and the crooks were “_the_ latest out;” - With common accord the dear feminine gender, - At once set to work in trying to render - - Themselves in appearance as near as could be, - To her who was now all the fashion, you see. - So where only yesterday out on the street - But one crooked female you might chance to meet, - - To-day there existed a hundred at least, - Who made up a pantomime, truly a feast - Of color and form, to him who delights - In fine graceful contours and that sort of sights; - - And yet it is proper that I should confess - (For to know “what is what” I did never profess), - The sight of curved females at first raised a question - Which seemed to me worthy some solid reflection. - - The question was this: if ’tis true as averred, - Human origin may to the ape be referred, - Then we are now turning, I boldly declare, - To monkeys again. Pray look at the air - - Of that monkey the organ-man carries about. - Gaze but a short moment and you will find out - When standing, his back just describes the outline - Of that fashionable female, in garments so fine. - - Does not this resemblance, oh, tell me, I pray, - ’Twixt apes and the fashionable dames of to-day, - Suggest to your mind the identical question, - Which seemed to me worthy some solid reflection? - -[Illustration] - - I say, that it _seemed_, for I must explain, - On seeing the bend, I could not refrain - At first from scorn and dejection, but now - My feelings are altered entirely, I vow. - - For when by the dashing “beau-monde” I was told, - The bend was the _fashion_--I soon came to hold - Opinions quite different; believe me, to-day - It seems to me “stylish” and most distingué. - - And now I must tell you, last week at a dance, - I found out the origin, quite by mere chance, - Of the “bend” surnamed “Grecian,” and then, think says I, - The fair sex shall know this; at once I will try - - To tell them in some way. So, spite of delays, - I’ve written the story of the “charmante Française,” - And while I congratulate all my fair friends - Who now are expert in the various “bends,” - - A word I would add--it is this: forget not - How specially favored and blest is your lot. - For you can have humps, if you like, on the back, - Without the bad colic and pains that did rack - - The female whose spine the best doctors couldn’t mend, - But oh! she invented “the true Grecian bend!” - A “bend” born of suffering truly pathetic, - A “bend” scientific as well as æsthetic. - - Now all of you know, I make bold to infer, - The “colic” and “pains” did in Paris occur. - Of course we Americans would not receive - Any fashions but those of imported disease: - - Excuse me: I mean that the “modes” are imported, - For it is very true, as has oft been reported, - We worship all things of Parisian extraction; - Why, even its morals (?) have quite an attraction! - - Of course, we despise them, but then, don’t you see, - They come after all from the stylish “Paris?” - Oh! wondrous Bill Shakspeare, of very huge fame! - You lied, Sir, in saying all names were the same. - - But now before closing, I gladly extend - To all who desire to attain the true bend, - A single suggestion, pray don’t pass it by, - But listen, then, labor “and never say die!” - - In every Art-study you’ll find it is best, - To model from Nature with uniform zest. - Oh, come now with me! I’ll show you to-night, - The model I spoke of--a pitiful sight. - - We’ll leave the gay avenue--this is the way-- - Through byways and lanes where the clear light of day - Has no room to enter. Here godless despair - Finds vent in wild curses and cries--do you dare - - To utter reproaches? Come, come, do not shrink; - You find the air stifling? Why, now only think, - You’re here but a moment and quite lose your breath; - Yet many will dwell here from birth unto death. - - You cannot return, though chilling the gloom, - For in this dark building we’ll find a dark room; - This stairway leads to it--come, let us ascend; - I’ll show you the model I spoke of, my friend. - - ’Tis long after midnight;--we reach very soon, - Up by the dark stairway, the room through the gloom; - And here in the corner, where burns a pale light, - Sits sewing and shivering a woman to-night. - - Through many a season, drooped low o’er her knee, - She’s sat there, and often she scarcely could see - What stitches to take, so flickering her lamp! - So weary her eyes! so chilling the damp! - -[Illustration] - - Two little ones sleep at her side on the floor; - At times she looks towards them with heart very sore - At the thought of their cries at the last scanty meal, - At the thought that on waking how hungry they’ll feel. - - “Oh! what shall I give them? the crusts are quite dry, - Yet they’re all that I have.” With many a sigh - She turns to her work, for she knows when ’tis done - More bread can be bought with the shilling she’s won. - - O brave, weary mother! the morning has come; - You’re hungry and cold, but the work is not done. - Thus through the sad seasons she’s bent o’er her knee - So low that her back has a curve, don’t you see-- - - A curve truly Grecian! I’m sure you would find, - Should you dress her in fashionable clothes of the kind - Worn now, she’d look “stylish” and have quite an “air.” - Her “bend” is more perfect by far, I declare, - - Than that of our ladies so fine and so gay - Who walk in the avenues day after day; - And surely an outline by Nature designed, - Is much the best model, if you are inclined, - - Fair lady, to triumph and truly intend - To study as artist the “true Grecian bend.” - A model from Nature! now, here is the question, - Is _this_ Grecian bend really worth your inspection? - - There’s only one drawback to this same inspection, - The thought of which fills me with some slight dejection, - I fear if this study you still will pursue, - It may not be best, friend, for me and for you. - - For listen! There’s possibly danger, you know, - That you may become, in these “models” who sew, - So much interested that you may forget - Yourself and the fashions, and that we’d regret. - - Fair lady, oh! guard against this above all, - For what sadder lot could e’er you befall? - And what would become of the “beau-monde” to-day, - Without “upper tens” and the fashions so gay? - - It’s time I should close; my task’s at an end; - I’ve told you the tale of the “true Grecian bend.” - Besides, a good model I’ve now pointed out, - By which you’ll attain to perfection, no doubt. - - And now pray permit me, while saying adieu, - With warmth once again to congratulate you, - That Providence kindly a colic did send, - Which gave you, dear ladies, the “true Grecian bend!” - -[Illustration] - - - - -TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: - - - Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. - - Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. - - Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TRUE GRECIAN BEND *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)</div> - -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TRUE GRECIAN BEND ***</div> - -<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/cover.jpg" width="40%" alt="" /></div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_02.jpg" alt="" /></div> -<p class="caption"><span class="gap">P. <a href="#Page_18">18</a>.</span></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_03.jpg" alt="" /></div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1><span class="small">THE</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">True Grecian Bend</span></h1> - -<p>A<br /> -<span class="xlarge">STORY IN VERSE</span></p> - -<p>BY<br /> -<span class="xlarge"><span class="smcap">Larry Leigh</span>,</span></p> - -<p>“Whence and what art thou, execrable shape?”—<span class="smcap">Milton</span></p> - -<p><i>WITH ILLUSTRATIONS</i></p> - - -<p><span class="xlarge">NEW YORK</span><br /> -<span class="large"><i>J. S. REDFIELD, PUBLISHER</i></span><br /> -140 FULTON STREET<br /> -1868</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<p class="center"> -Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by<br /> -<br /> -J. S. REDFIELD,<br /> -<br /> -In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States<br /> -for the Eastern District of New York.<br /> -<br /> -<br /> -<span class="smcap">Edward O. Jenkins</span>,<br /> -<i>PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER</i>,<br /> -No. 20 North William St.</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[5]</span> - -<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_05.jpg" alt="" /></div> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="small">THE</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">True Grecian Bend.</span></h2> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse"><span class="smcap">A woman</span> in France got the spinal disease,</div> -<div class="verse">And from that sad moment she had no more ease;</div> -<div class="verse">To add to her anguish, she very soon found,</div> -<div class="verse">Oh, horrors! her back was becoming quite round.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[6]</span> -<div class="verse">The spasms of physical pain she endured,</div> -<div class="verse">Were keen, I assure you, and could not be cured;</div> -<div class="verse">But bad as these were, it seems, on the whole,</div> -<div class="verse">They could not compare with the pangs of her soul.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">For I must inform you, O dear reader mine—</div> -<div class="verse">(I’m in my third verse, and indeed it is time)—</div> -<div class="verse">That our stylish Parisian was Fashion’s dear slave,</div> -<div class="verse">And to its sweet service her brain and time gave.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[7]</span> -<div class="verse">If she had been poet or artist or sage,</div> -<div class="verse">Or one of “the women,” so called, “of the age,”</div> -<div class="verse">With missions to Art, or the indigent poor,</div> -<div class="verse">Her crooked vertébra she might well endure.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">For ’tis of no consequence, surely, I say,</div> -<div class="verse">If strong-minded women who flaunt in our day</div> -<div class="verse">Their rights to more freedom for work and for speech</div> -<div class="verse">Are placed by disease quite beyond the world’s reach.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[8]</span> -<div class="verse">Such women belong to that low, common kind</div> -<div class="verse">Who assert that an active condition of mind</div> -<div class="verse">Or of hands (me! how vulgar!) does make, after all,</div> -<div class="verse">What we a true woman can worthily call.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">But say, of what consequence, pray, can it be</div> -<div class="verse">If females with such vulgar notions, you see,</div> -<div class="verse">Are forced to stop work and all bold agitations</div> -<div class="verse">Of questions important to churches and nations</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[9]</span> -<div class="verse">Because of a weakness of brain and of spine?</div> -<div class="verse">(Both organs, alas! being in a <i>decline</i>.)</div> -<div class="verse">It matters but little, if women like these,</div> -<div class="verse">Are deprived of all usefulness, comfort, and ease.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">But when a fair daughter of Fashion—a treasure,</div> -<div class="verse">Who lives but to seek and to find her own pleasure,</div> -<div class="verse">A victim becomes to keen pains that do rack,</div> -<div class="verse">To pains that quite ruin the shape of her back—</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[10]</span> -<div class="verse">Here, here is a tale that makes the heart bleed!</div> -<div class="verse">A tale wholly fit for a poet indeed!</div> -<div class="verse">Before I have finished, however, you’ll find</div> -<div class="verse">That sunlight with shadow is herein combined.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">At present the shadow rests over my maid,</div> -<div class="verse">While wrapped in reflection she sits in the shade.</div> -<div class="verse">Her brain being small, is quite like the pot</div> -<div class="verse">Which, owing to smallness, so soon became hot.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[11]</span> -<div class="verse">It seems at this moment, in truth, quite on fire,</div> -<div class="verse">Harassed as it is with the spasms of ire,</div> -<div class="verse">That seize it in thinking of hopes all destroyed,</div> -<div class="verse">Her figure quite ruined! her future a void!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">For I must inform you, our “charmante Française,”</div> -<div class="verse">Deluded as all of us were in those days,</div> -<div class="verse">Considered it really a feminine charm,</div> -<div class="verse">To carry the figure—including the arm—</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[12]</span> -<div class="verse">According to Nature in some slight degree,</div> -<div class="verse">With freedom and unstudied grace, don’t you see?</div> -<div class="verse">A form finely poised, and free in its motion,</div> -<div class="verse">Is surely a sign—at least, such was the notion—</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Of youth and of health. Even some thought that grace</div> -<div class="verse">Had a meaning and charm quite beyond a doll face.</div> -<div class="verse">But all such ideas have of course now gone by</div> -<div class="verse">In times when the fashions do Nature defy.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[13]</span> -<div class="verse">As I was just saying, our “charmante Française,”</div> -<div class="verse">Deluded as all of us were in those days,</div> -<div class="verse">Was tortured with agony now at the thought</div> -<div class="verse">Of the change which the spinal affection had wrought</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">In her whose fine figure, a short time ago,</div> -<div class="verse">Arrayed in rare furbelows, made such a show</div> -<div class="verse">On the “Boulevards;” also when on her white mare,</div> -<div class="verse">Erect and in “stove-pipe” she pranced with the air</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[14]</span> -<div class="verse">Which marks the great “parvenues” out as that class</div> -<div class="verse">Whose eyes, looking over you, say, “Let me pass!</div> -<div class="verse">Do you know who I am? I’ve a carriage and four,</div> -<div class="verse">A poodle and twenty-five servants and more.”</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">But I am digressing. The subject is great,</div> -<div class="verse">And I fear I shall never get through at this rate.</div> -<div class="verse">To return to “mes moutons,” I mean to my maid;</div> -<div class="verse">We left her, remember, in wrath and in shade.</div><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[15]</span></p> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[16]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_16.jpg" alt="" /></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[17]</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">She sat in the shade, for she feared that the light</div> -<div class="verse">Would bring to her vision that horrible sight,</div> -<div class="verse">A female with vertebral column askew,</div> -<div class="verse">And now as she sat here she dreaded the view.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">But at the next moment a thought bright as fire,</div> -<div class="verse">Seemed to burn in her eyes and to chase away ire;</div> -<div class="verse">She rose, in a tremor of joy, from the gloom,</div> -<div class="verse">And opening the shutters, made bright the whole room.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[18]</span> -<div class="verse">She then all at once did proceed, with a rush,</div> -<div class="verse">To fasten a pillow, with cheeks all a-flush,</div> -<div class="verse">Just under her skirt, quite behind at the back,</div> -<div class="verse">And then she donned quickly a hat and a sack—</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Seized quicker a parasol; then without fear,</div> -<div class="verse">She faced the long mirror with eyes all a-cheer</div> -<div class="verse">With some inspiration, that strangely did lend</div> -<div class="verse">To a spine badly bent an additional bend.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[19]</span> -<div class="verse">Pray what was she doing? you ask, all amazed,</div> -<div class="verse">Perhaps you imagine the girl was quite crazed,</div> -<div class="verse">Or trying a cure—and that’s madness enough—</div> -<div class="verse">With “similia similibus” ideas and such stuff.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Oh, no! my dear Reader; she’s simply intent</div> -<div class="verse">On proving in practice the worth of a bent,</div> -<div class="verse">Which entered her mind a few moments ago,</div> -<div class="verse">And set all her brain and her heart in a glow.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[20]</span> -<div class="verse">In short, all creations of genius, you know,</div> -<div class="verse">Originate, so they say, always just so;</div> -<div class="verse">Quite all of a sudden, undreamt of, they’re born</div> -<div class="verse">In the brain which seeks after to give them a form.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">The form which our heroine sought now to give</div> -<div class="verse">To her noble creation was, sure as I live,</div> -<div class="verse">A crook in the back and a crook in the arm,</div> -<div class="verse">And with these same crooks she means yet to charm</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[21]</span> -<div class="verse">Her circle of former admirers and friends,</div> -<div class="verse">And, after a ripe preparation, intends</div> -<div class="verse">To make her “<i>début</i>” in a style very new,</div> -<div class="verse">Unknown to the crowd or e’en the rare <i>few</i>.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Oh, view her, as now she continues to pass</div> -<div class="verse">Up and down, while she studies herself in the glass!</div> -<div class="verse">With parasol raised very high in the air,</div> -<div class="verse">And spine really taking a curve, I declare,</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[22]</span> -<div class="verse">Exceeding by far the long crook that disease</div> -<div class="verse">Had wrought there in hours void of rest and of ease,</div> -<div class="verse">And yet, I assure you, her face glows with smiles,</div> -<div class="verse">While practicing poses the hours she beguiles.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">But while I still watched her, a cloud thin as air,</div> -<div class="verse">Passed over the features that now seemed so fair;</div> -<div class="verse">With eyes on the mirror, I heard her exclaim,</div> -<div class="verse">“Oh! dear me! oh! dear me! I’ve lost it again.”</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[23]</span> -<div class="verse">She takes a new bend—then cries, “That’s not it!”</div> -<div class="verse">Here, dear reader mine, she was seized with a fit</div> -<div class="verse">Of abdominal colic, which only did serve</div> -<div class="verse">To add, you perceive, to her back a new curve.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">The full extra curve produced by the pain,</div> -<div class="verse">Brought strangely the smiles to her features again;</div> -<div class="verse">She cried, “Oh! kind Providence surely did send</div> -<div class="verse">This spasm to give me the ‘true Grecian bend!’</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[24]</span> -<div class="verse">“The ‘true Grecian bend!’ here, here is a name</div> -<div class="verse">Which soon will acquire a most glorious fame!</div> -<div class="verse">It hides my poor hump altogether, you see,</div> -<div class="verse">And a leader of fashion again I will be!”</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Since the colic referred to, by Providence sent,</div> -<div class="verse">Two weeks had gone by, and our damsel had bent</div> -<div class="verse">Whatever of strength she possessed to attain</div> -<div class="verse">The “true Grecian bend,” and it was not in vain.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[25]</span> -<div class="verse">The day now arrived for the startling “début,”</div> -<div class="verse">And our heroine smiling emerged to the view</div> -<div class="verse">Of the Boulevards, where “tout le monde” in a maze</div> -<div class="verse">At the strange apparatus in wonder did gaze.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">This strange apparatus, as I before said,</div> -<div class="verse">Perched on heels that supported a hump on the head,</div> -<div class="verse">A hump on the back and a crook in the arm</div> -<div class="verse">Presented a vision entitled to charm</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[26]</span> -<div class="verse">The eyes of all artists; for sure ’tis their duty</div> -<div class="verse">To recognize always the true curve of beauty;</div> -<div class="verse">And who can deny that here was a curve</div> -<div class="verse">Sufficiently curving as model to serve?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">The world, as I said, at first in a maze,</div> -<div class="verse">With sneers at the strange apparatus did gaze;</div> -<div class="verse">But when this same world at last did discover</div> -<div class="verse">The “strange apparatus” was she, and no other,</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[27]</span> -<div class="verse">Who only last year the gay fashion did lead,</div> -<div class="verse">And lived on the Boulevard Malesherbes indeed!</div> -<div class="verse">They suddenly found that her present strange style</div> -<div class="verse">Was but a new fashion she’d set all the while.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Upon the discovery that, without doubt,</div> -<div class="verse">The humps and the crooks were “<i>the</i> latest out;”</div> -<div class="verse">With common accord the dear feminine gender,</div> -<div class="verse">At once set to work in trying to render</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[28]</span> -<div class="verse">Themselves in appearance as near as could be,</div> -<div class="verse">To her who was now all the fashion, you see.</div> -<div class="verse">So where only yesterday out on the street</div> -<div class="verse">But one crooked female you might chance to meet,</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">To-day there existed a hundred at least,</div> -<div class="verse">Who made up a pantomime, truly a feast</div> -<div class="verse">Of color and form, to him who delights</div> -<div class="verse">In fine graceful contours and that sort of sights;</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[29]</span> -<div class="verse">And yet it is proper that I should confess</div> -<div class="verse">(For to know “what is what” I did never profess),</div> -<div class="verse">The sight of curved females at first raised a question</div> -<div class="verse">Which seemed to me worthy some solid reflection.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">The question was this: if ’tis true as averred,</div> -<div class="verse">Human origin may to the ape be referred,</div> -<div class="verse">Then we are now turning, I boldly declare,</div> -<div class="verse">To monkeys again. Pray look at the air</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[30]</span> -<div class="verse">Of that monkey the organ-man carries about.</div> -<div class="verse">Gaze but a short moment and you will find out</div> -<div class="verse">When standing, his back just describes the outline</div> -<div class="verse">Of that fashionable female, in garments so fine.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Does not this resemblance, oh, tell me, I pray,</div> -<div class="verse">’Twixt apes and the fashionable dames of to-day,</div> -<div class="verse">Suggest to your mind the identical question,</div> -<div class="verse">Which seemed to me worthy some solid reflection?</div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[31]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_31.jpg" alt="" /></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[32]</span></p> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[33]</span> -<div class="verse">I say, that it <i>seemed</i>, for I must explain,</div> -<div class="verse">On seeing the bend, I could not refrain</div> -<div class="verse">At first from scorn and dejection, but now</div> -<div class="verse">My feelings are altered entirely, I vow.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">For when by the dashing “beau-monde” I was told,</div> -<div class="verse">The bend was the <i>fashion</i>—I soon came to hold</div> -<div class="verse">Opinions quite different; believe me, to-day</div> -<div class="verse">It seems to me “stylish” and most distingué.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[34]</span> -<div class="verse">And now I must tell you, last week at a dance,</div> -<div class="verse">I found out the origin, quite by mere chance,</div> -<div class="verse">Of the “bend” surnamed “Grecian,” and then, think says I,</div> -<div class="verse">The fair sex shall know this; at once I will try</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">To tell them in some way. So, spite of delays,</div> -<div class="verse">I’ve written the story of the “charmante Française,”</div> -<div class="verse">And while I congratulate all my fair friends</div> -<div class="verse">Who now are expert in the various “bends,”</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[35]</span> -<div class="verse">A word I would add—it is this: forget not</div> -<div class="verse">How specially favored and blest is your lot.</div> -<div class="verse">For you can have humps, if you like, on the back,</div> -<div class="verse">Without the bad colic and pains that did rack</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">The female whose spine the best doctors couldn’t mend,</div> -<div class="verse">But oh! she invented “the true Grecian bend!”</div> -<div class="verse">A “bend” born of suffering truly pathetic,</div> -<div class="verse">A “bend” scientific as well as æsthetic.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[36]</span> -<div class="verse">Now all of you know, I make bold to infer,</div> -<div class="verse">The “colic” and “pains” did in Paris occur.</div> -<div class="verse">Of course we Americans would not receive</div> -<div class="verse">Any fashions but those of imported disease:</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Excuse me: I mean that the “modes” are imported,</div> -<div class="verse">For it is very true, as has oft been reported,</div> -<div class="verse">We worship all things of Parisian extraction;</div> -<div class="verse">Why, even its morals (?) have quite an attraction!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[37]</span> -<div class="verse">Of course, we despise them, but then, don’t you see,</div> -<div class="verse">They come after all from the stylish “Paris?”</div> -<div class="verse">Oh! wondrous Bill Shakspeare, of very huge fame!</div> -<div class="verse">You lied, Sir, in saying all names were the same.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">But now before closing, I gladly extend</div> -<div class="verse">To all who desire to attain the true bend,</div> -<div class="verse">A single suggestion, pray don’t pass it by,</div> -<div class="verse">But listen, then, labor “and never say die!”</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[38]</span> -<div class="verse">In every Art-study you’ll find it is best,</div> -<div class="verse">To model from Nature with uniform zest.</div> -<div class="verse">Oh, come now with me! I’ll show you to-night,</div> -<div class="verse">The model I spoke of—a pitiful sight.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">We’ll leave the gay avenue—this is the way—</div> -<div class="verse">Through byways and lanes where the clear light of day</div> -<div class="verse">Has no room to enter. Here godless despair</div> -<div class="verse">Finds vent in wild curses and cries—do you dare</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[39]</span> -<div class="verse">To utter reproaches? Come, come, do not shrink;</div> -<div class="verse">You find the air stifling? Why, now only think,</div> -<div class="verse">You’re here but a moment and quite lose your breath;</div> -<div class="verse">Yet many will dwell here from birth unto death.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">You cannot return, though chilling the gloom,</div> -<div class="verse">For in this dark building we’ll find a dark room;</div> -<div class="verse">This stairway leads to it—come, let us ascend;</div> -<div class="verse">I’ll show you the model I spoke of, my friend.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[40]</span> -<div class="verse">’Tis long after midnight;—we reach very soon,</div> -<div class="verse">Up by the dark stairway, the room through the gloom;</div> -<div class="verse">And here in the corner, where burns a pale light,</div> -<div class="verse">Sits sewing and shivering a woman to-night.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Through many a season, drooped low o’er her knee,</div> -<div class="verse">She’s sat there, and often she scarcely could see</div> -<div class="verse">What stitches to take, so flickering her lamp!</div> -<div class="verse">So weary her eyes! so chilling the damp!</div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[41]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_41.jpg" alt="" /></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[42]</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[43]</span> -<div class="verse">Two little ones sleep at her side on the floor;</div> -<div class="verse">At times she looks towards them with heart very sore</div> -<div class="verse">At the thought of their cries at the last scanty meal,</div> -<div class="verse">At the thought that on waking how hungry they’ll feel.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">“Oh! what shall I give them? the crusts are quite dry,</div> -<div class="verse">Yet they’re all that I have.” With many a sigh</div> -<div class="verse">She turns to her work, for she knows when ’tis done</div> -<div class="verse">More bread can be bought with the shilling she’s won.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_44">[44]</span> -<div class="verse">O brave, weary mother! the morning has come;</div> -<div class="verse">You’re hungry and cold, but the work is not done.</div> -<div class="verse">Thus through the sad seasons she’s bent o’er her knee</div> -<div class="verse">So low that her back has a curve, don’t you see—</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">A curve truly Grecian! I’m sure you would find,</div> -<div class="verse">Should you dress her in fashionable clothes of the kind</div> -<div class="verse">Worn now, she’d look “stylish” and have quite an “air.”</div> -<div class="verse">Her “bend” is more perfect by far, I declare,</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[45]</span> -<div class="verse">Than that of our ladies so fine and so gay</div> -<div class="verse">Who walk in the avenues day after day;</div> -<div class="verse">And surely an outline by Nature designed,</div> -<div class="verse">Is much the best model, if you are inclined,</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Fair lady, to triumph and truly intend</div> -<div class="verse">To study as artist the “true Grecian bend.”</div> -<div class="verse">A model from Nature! now, here is the question,</div> -<div class="verse">Is <i>this</i> Grecian bend really worth your inspection?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_46">[46]</span> -<div class="verse">There’s only one drawback to this same inspection,</div> -<div class="verse">The thought of which fills me with some slight dejection,</div> -<div class="verse">I fear if this study you still will pursue,</div> -<div class="verse">It may not be best, friend, for me and for you.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">For listen! There’s possibly danger, you know,</div> -<div class="verse">That you may become, in these “models” who sew,</div> -<div class="verse">So much interested that you may forget</div> -<div class="verse">Yourself and the fashions, and that we’d regret.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_47">[47]</span> -<div class="verse">Fair lady, oh! guard against this above all,</div> -<div class="verse">For what sadder lot could e’er you befall?</div> -<div class="verse">And what would become of the “beau-monde” to-day,</div> -<div class="verse">Without “upper tens” and the fashions so gay?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">It’s time I should close; my task’s at an end;</div> -<div class="verse">I’ve told you the tale of the “true Grecian bend.”</div> -<div class="verse">Besides, a good model I’ve now pointed out,</div> -<div class="verse">By which you’ll attain to perfection, no doubt.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_48">[48]</span> -<div class="verse">And now pray permit me, while saying adieu,</div> -<div class="verse">With warmth once again to congratulate you,</div> -<div class="verse">That Providence kindly a colic did send,</div> -<div class="verse">Which gave you, dear ladies, the “true Grecian bend!”</div> -</div></div></div> - -<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_48.jpg" alt="" /></div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="transnote"> -<div class="chapter"> -<p class="ph1">TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:</p> -</div> - - -<p>Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.</p> - -<p>Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.</p> -</div> -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TRUE GRECIAN BEND ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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