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Show A MODERN ATHENIAN. 'Twa in June when first I met bar, and I never on all forget her Uniuinlnif. artless manner, nor her unaffected unaf-fected ways; While I liked her all the betterthat her tonfrue she did nut fetter With the stilted phraseology that bores us nowadays, 6he wa sweet as ever rose, was, and I certainly suppose was Jtint aoout the dearest summer irlrl that ever man desired; 50 my heart ere August's close was captivated; to propose was I upon the ve-y point t the girl I so admired. ad-mired. 51 e informed me as we parted, b th of us quite heavy hearted. Thnt In lloston tie should pass tlio coming j winter with a friend; Then a clance at me sl:e darted. I rauht om the engine st irt'Ml, And already I foresaw what would doubless te the end. For I knew the v, ays of lloston her sweet smile would drop a frost on, C.rticeallni! all l.er summer warmth to atitumnatlc chill: Hi-owning tires si e d there be tossed on, Cupid's durts would then tie lost on Such a tender heai tid maiden, after such Athenian drill. When we met ugaln I found her a most virulent viru-lent expounder Of all supermundane theories and ochlocratlc rule. While she i.trove to draw around her men of Intellect profounder Than the students or the occult, or the transit! tran-sit! Rtantiate school. She professed to be a censor of the works of IPrhert Spencer; Her thought seemed allnuhlgenous and not of so; 111 life; And I must have bean much denser than I am, to ghe offense, or Even th nk of asking would she be my little wile. -F. It. Curtiu. |