Countrywomen

These be two

Countrywomen.

What a size!

Grand big arms

And round red faces;

Big substantial

Sit-down-places;

Great big bosoms firm as cheese

Bursting through their country jackets;

Wide big laps

And sturdy knees;

Hands outspread,

Round and rosy,

Hands to hold

A country posy

Or a baby or a lamb—

    And such eyes!

Stupid, shifty, small and sly

Peeping through a slit of sty,

Squinting through their neighbours' plackets.