"The bluest blue stockings"

I idolize the Ladies! They are fairies,

That spiritualize this world of ours;

From heavenly hot-beds most delightful flowers,

Or choice cream-cheeses from celestial dairies,

But learning, in its barbarous seminaries,

Gives the dear creatures many wretched hours,

And on their gossamer intellect sternly showers

SCIENCE, with all its horrid accessaries [sic].

Now, seriously, the only things, I think,

In which young ladies should instructed be,

Are--stocking-mending, love, and cookery!--

Accomplishments that very soon will sink,

Since Fluxions now, and Sanscrit conversation,

Always form part of female education!

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廖康谈到蓝袜子，我记得有许多蓝袜子的诗，可惜在网上只能找到这
一首（不是学英美文学的:）。 转在这里，没有别的意思，纯粹是为
了热闹热闹。

http://www.assumption.edu/whw/bluest_stockings.html