INDECISION. Just the old, old story Love like the opal tender, May be to fade. Just the old tender story, Just a glimpse of morning glory In a pair of sweet brown eyes, Brown eyes a man might well Through a slender wedding ring. 169 R. D. BLACKMORE. INDECISION. Do I love her? Dimpling red lips at me pouting, Do I love her? Prisoned in those crystal eyes Yes, I do! Do I love her? Little wild and willful fiction, Do I love her? With kind acts and sweet words she Yes, I do! Do I love her? Quick she puts her cuirass on, Do I love her? No. Then to my arms she flies, ANONYMOUS. A KISS IN THE RAIN. One stormy morn I chanced to meet A lassie in the town; Her locks were like the ripened wheat, Her laughing eyes were brown. THE FRIVOLOUS GIRL. I watched her, as she tripped along, 171 And then-and then-I knew 'twas wrong- I kissed her in the rain. With rain-drops shining on her cheek, Like dew-drops on a rose, The little lassie strove to speak, My boldness to oppose; She strove in vain, and, quivering, Her finger stole in mine; And then the birds began to sing, Oh, let the clouds grow dark above, "Tis always summer when we love, And I'm proud as any prince, She says I am her rain-beau since I kissed her in the rain. ANONYMOUS. THE FRIVOLOUS GIRL. Her eyes were bright and merry, She dressed like a royal princess, Twenty years later. She's a wife, a mother, a woman, FRIENDSHIP, LOVE, AND TRUTH. Friendship doth bind with pleasant ties, But strengthens it-it never dies Love is the sacred link which binds Hearts joined by friendship firmer still; Who once has felt it, in it finds Joys which his soul with pleasure fill. Truth only can complete the chain, While e'er the human soul shall live. A SONG FOR THE GIRL I LOVE. 173 THE SILENCE OF LOVE. I hold that we are wrong to seek For love, like sympathy, hath bands To form in speech the thoughts that start; Hath yearnings that are never heard. ANONYMOUS. A SONG FOR THE GIRL I LOVE. A song for the girl I love— God love her! A song for the eyes that tender shine, That clasp her neck with tendrils of gold; |