Years Ago.
1 Bless me, boy, that was years ago— ■ And you tell me that's the girl—:: That sleek old dowager moving slow, Just there ahead in the purple bow, ? The tramand the chana of pearl. A dt.amino* faded, but met full-grown, And draped in a cashmere shall! I'm a man of business, sinew- and bone, ;, , And weigh, I won't say how many stone, S But she—oh, confou'ud it all 1 Let's soe—ten—twenty-odd years ago ""- , .1 shut her doors in a rage, '.--' -j^i That jar—l felt it a week or so ; - j^ffl A fellow's nerves will quiver, you ,J f' j .Before he is quite of age. ~,;«■ ;: .:(*;■ I remember the room we p*t r*' / ' The twilightr—th'e twifc/". *. Her sunny hair with *?<' ■ ,_ ,% -"j Her flashing eyes *?>'" ..ur-passionater* ..:._ " She waits me.? 4'^' „> ■■£■ '<p -f * <,- , Flushed a*; ' \ : * * ~ * .' .- A wraithjg rab|3s% j_tfi£*a__^t-.-.**■ I A dreE r • . T\ IwaF : ' ; \ ( *73«J .1 ■_! ...S4 J j i^S/S .:,, ,: '.''"*, ' '■''' ■ ■"■:!"' .■ ;' '*■■ -■•■-•■•■"-.-! ;':' ;,-- f ">"*. : ...-.'i; . : ... . - -1
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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1683, 10 July 1875, Page 6 (Supplement)
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153Years Ago. Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1683, 10 July 1875, Page 6 (Supplement)
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