Miscellany.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 490, 25 March 1881, Page 3

Miscellany.

GIELS I HAVE KNOWN.

' Girls I have known " —how time does flit! Girls young, and beautiful and merry; I think upon them as I sit ,'A

And puff my weed and sip my sherry , And as the fire-flames leap up bright, I wonder where they are to-night, Lucy the fair, who held me long

With love so tender and romantic ; Julia the dark ; my Jove was strong

For her, and almost turned me frantic Of both of these I've long lost sight; I hoje they're happy wives to;night. Kate, pretty, jealous, golden-haired,

So very loving, yet capricious ; Blanche, who to ride out hunting dared,

And vowed that billiards were delicious, Their races glimmer in the light Ap here I Mt and smoke to-night. Winnie, who swayed my fears and hopes

Whew I »'aa fagging hard at college ; Emma, vho pulled the tiller-ropes With all a pretty coxs'n's knowledge. My thoughts of them are aught but slight As i sit Hero and must* to-night. That dark-eyed queen whom now I see,

And really nliiu>t>t bought a ring for— Lizzie, who to nng to me—

Has nhe a husband got to sing for ? I hope they've not forgotten quite Him who sits here alone to-niglit. Dear little Hess! she died, poor #irl;

llannah, 1 know, long since was mated ; Anil Jane, who in the waltz's whirl

I learned to love, to shame whs fated. May God'to her bring cheering light If she is dark in soul to-night! I still can think of many more, They still rise up, those well-known fa< ep ;

My thoughts are still 'midst days of yore, When I was young and girls were " Grnces." And yet I'm in a lonely plight, A solitary man to-night.

White hands I've clasped, and waists I've bound, Lips 1 hove kissed with fond caresses ; Yet never partner have I found, Ami single gloom my soul oppresses. A wife shall make my chamber bright, Is what I sit and think to-night.