I wrote the following foolishness a few years ago and am very glad to make it available again. It's inspired by chapter VIII volume II of Pride and Prejudice, which takes place on Easter Sunday, and the English accumulative rhyme This is the House that Jack Built. Somehow, this little piece ended up with a listing on Goodreads. It even has two reviews! My apologies to Anne de Bourgh, Mrs. Jenkins, and Maria Lucas, who are here neglected. May all who celebrated have enjoyed their holiday more than Lizzy!
Easter at Rosings
This is the drawing room at Rosings.
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| Image from the Belton House Hondecoeter Room, which was used as Lady Catherine’s reception room in the 1995 BBC production of Pride & Prejudice. You can’t actually see the fireplace in the film. |
This is the fireplace
That warms the drawing room at Rosings.
This is the Rector who admires the fireplace
That warms the drawing room at Rosings.
This is the Lady who hired the Rector
Who admires the fireplace
That warms the drawing room at Rosings.
This is the wife approved by the Lady
Who hired the Rector
Who admires the fireplace
That warms the drawing room at Rosings.
Who is friends with the wife
Approved by the Lady
Who hired the Rector
Who admires the fireplace
That warms the drawing room at Rosings.
This is the piano made in Lichtenstein
That was played by Elizabeth with the eyes so fine
Who is friends with the wife
Approved by the Lady
Who hired the Rector
Who admires the fireplace
That warms the drawing room at Rosings.
This is the music a song sublime
Performed on the piano made in Lichtenstein
By Elizabeth with the eyes so fine
Who is friends with the wife
Approved by the Lady
Who hired the Rector
Who admires the fireplace
That warms the drawing room at Rosings.
This is the Colonel loyal and genuine
Who turned the music so sublime
Performed on the piano made in Lichtenstein
By Elizabeth with the eyes so fine
Who is friends with the wife
Approved by the Lady
Who hired the Rector
Who admires the fireplace
That warms the drawing room at Rosings.
This is the hero whose heart repines
To see the Colonel, though loyal and genuine,
Turn the music so sublime
Performed on the piano made in Lichtenstein
By Elizabeth with the eyes so fine
Who is friends with the wife
Approved by the Lady
Who hired the Rector
Who admires the fireplace
That warms the drawing room at Rosings.
This is set down well designed
Delivered to the hero whose heart repines
To see the Colonel loyal and genuine
Turn the music so sublime
Performed on the piano made in Lichtenstein
By Elizabeth with the eyes so fine
Who is friends with the wife
Approved by the Lady
Who hired the Rector
Who admires the fireplace
That warms the drawing room at Rosings:
“Shall we ask him why a man of sense and education, and who has lived in the world, is ill qualified to recommend himself to strangers?”
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