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Show APPEAL. TO ST. VALENTINE I mm -Cases' , HIS line of hearts " you've laid away, - Consists. St. Valentine, Val-entine, you say. Of those uncalled for, staid, antique, an-tique, The kind that lov-i lov-i ers seldom seek? So still they seem and yet perchance per-chance Within them burns some old ro mance, That atarted happily, but died Through some mistake unrectifled. Ah. Valentine, on this your day Release those hearts you've laid away. Who owned them all, did this one wait In Indecision till too late? Was this one withered by a word From some old gossip overheard? This one Is old, yet came to you Trusting and light when It was new. And one mayhap Is waiting yet Who loved It and can't forget. And so, St. Valentine, we pray Give back the hearts you've laid away. I'm sure that they wil! find the way Back to the love of yesterday; Give heed to this poor plea of mine, Give them a chance, St. Valentine, And there Is one within your store That I have long been seeking for. And since her heart, the best of th6m, Is there among the rest of them, Make this Emancipation day; Set free the hearts you've laid away. Reynale Smith Pickering, ir. Puck. |