HOW TO WIN AND WOO HER.
" Would you play the manly lover ?" Said a greybeard to his son. " List, my lad, wbiJeT discover How a maiden should be won. " Woo her not with boastful phrases, Lest you teach her lip to sneer ; Still a euitor's warmest praises In his conduct should appear. " Woo her not with senseless sighing — Maidens love. a laughing eye: Tell her not that you are * dying,' Lest she, laughing, bid you die." " Woo her not with weakly whining O'er your poverty of pelf, Lest she answer by declining Both your sorrows and yourself. " Woo her with a manly wooing, Giving hostages to Fate, All the heart's devotion showing By its strength to work and wait. " Woo her not with idle prattle, Whom you fain would make your wife, But with proofs that in Life's battle You are equal to the strife. " Like the knight whose simple suing Won the lady (says the tale), When, despite their wordy wooing, All the rest were doomed to fail " ' Lady,' quoth the bold knight-errant 'Brief the story I will tell. I would wed thee ; here's the warrant-— I shall love and serve thee well.' " And, behold his dexter fingers Crush a horse- shoe like a reed, And within her lap there lingers All rhe gold the twain can need.
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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 20, 26 November 1874, Page 3
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