Show THAT VALENTINE OF MEMORY Through memory's s deepening mist mistI I gaze upon a scene of or other days A country schoolroom sitting schoolroom sitting there a eyed blue girl with flaxen hair and ond back of her with love aflame I sat and lisped her lien loving name Into her hand a n valentine I slipped n slipped a gem surpassing surpassing sur sur- passing tine fine one I made a crude affair with rosy hearts stuck i 1 t ti r here and there Twos mud compared to those of ot now but Jut Love oozed from it anyhow and In It was Inscribed a 0 abit abit bit of verse the sweetest ever writ IF YOU LOVE E ME IF AS I 1 LO LOVE YOU NO K KNIFE IFE CAN CA CUT cur OUR oun LOVE LOYE LOVEIN IN 1 TWO I 1 married her of course you say Oh no she picked another jay Now ow when I Isee see her with her brood In petulant petulant lant maternal mood no longer pert but fat tat and plain Im I'm glad ne he hacked our love lo In twain h Harlan arlon Babcock in Chicago Journal |