Show A QUTRET ODE Thirty today Well b it O Would I the years were twenty 2 IVo I loved you all at twenty Then Myself yu scarcely dtoutoled ten scrcely dublet Since fought when Ive toiled arsd failed and Hoped and regretted learned and taught So having win to mans estate Why should I Teary of my mate I ask no mare of surprise Flushed cheeks or unacqualntea eyes Nor holds there any spell for me In ignorant simplicity ignott simplcty Let the peachapple hang though ripe With fragrant juices mine the wife Who brings me wholesome fair and good goo The ripened fruit of womanhood Vb crowns my measure to the Up With fit and full companionship Mere homage to the girl I owe I need the woman that I know A sober strata dear one that fitS i With sobered hearts and sooered wltsljr Yet take my gift of Easter flowers f 1 White harbinger of sunnier hours sunnr Gone is and gone with liragtring Lent The winter of our discontent Remember how narcissus grew nlrclus Where planets summerfraught with dew Watched GHon and in swathes among Lush meadows misty fragrance hung Not sweeter than your breath Oh there tere With such enchantment in the air Wih here or there by night or day So all the world were far away Our thirty years methinks might prove Thirty good reasons why to love Blackwoods Magazine G W 1 |