The Inexperienced Barber-a Tale. At length our hero silence broke, To win an empress to my arms, Though blest with more than mortal charms. To take the beau with all his hair. THE INEXPERIENCED BARBER. The other day, a certain beau, To the first shop that met his view; "Exert your powers, and don't be stupid, The Inexperienced Barber. The man, a novice in his trade, His best abilities display'd; And Cupid from his chair arose, A finished beauty, we suppose; Approach'd the glass, his visage spied, Then turning to the Barber, cried"Is this your boasted taste?-for shame! "Such dressing don't deserve the name; "My head, with all these curls and plaster, "Looks like the very devil, master." The barber in a humble tone, Replied, "Dear sir, the fault's your own, "You bade me view your face with care, "And to your looks adapt your hair." NOTE. It The following Poem is founded on a custom peculiar to the city of New-York, where rents and leases uniformly commence on the first day of MAY. was the production of a few leisure evenings in the spring of 1812, and dedicated (see line 42d) to the honourable Dewitt Clinton, then Mayor of the city of New-York. |