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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 503, 10 May 1881, Page 3

Select Poetry.

LOVE AND INDIGESTION. Oh ! I feel so very curious—Liza Jane ; For within me there's a furious—gastric % pain ; I would call up happy visions, But they turn to sad derisions, And the effort is in vain—Liza Jane. I ate lobster pie for supper—Liza Jane, "With an under crust and upper—how insane! sfow it pinches and it gnaws, As if all the lobbter claws i had swallowed ; ouch ! the pain ! Liza Jane. Then I. seasoned it with pickle—Liza Jane; And I know it's very fickle—to complain ; But with good things on the table, And an appetite capable, How the deuce could I refrain—Liza Jane* I would like to swear I love thec-Liza Jane By the shining stars above thee-but in vain; This contraction epigastric Maketb love the very last trick To inhabit heart and brain—Liza Jane. Fain would dream of thee in slumber— Liza Jnne ; But that horrible cucumber—makes it pain; That to dream thus avlio would try it Must indulge in milder diet, Or liis hopes will be in vain—Liza Jane. Ah! the dream, would bo another—Liza Jane ; t'would be of my grandmother—and we twain Upon quadrupeds nocturnal, Like equestrians infernal, Would be riding might and main—Liza Jane. ; If a man should pop the questions—Liza Jane, While a fit of indigestion—gave him pain, 'Twere as sure as any law, That he'd better held his jaw; For he thence might gang along—Liza Jane. MORAL. Now, if one may might come to naught— Liza Jane, Eating things he hadn't ought—but abstain, Till my fate be well defined, Till I know my sweetheart's mind, I will do co ne'er again—Liza Jane.