DOMESTIC DIPLOMACY.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 74, 9 December 1875, Page 7

DOMESTIC DIPLOMACY.

j She was watching at the window, As I hurried down the street, In the simple brown merino That I fancy looks so neat, And her smile I thought protentous, It was so exceeding sweet. Tb en she met nic" at tho threshold "With a very'loving kiss, That recalled the early stages Of our matrimonial bliss ; And I felt afc once a tremor — "Was there anything amiss ? No ! The children were all quiet, And the hearth was very bright, And my pet— our roguish Charlie— Was quite festal in his white •; Yet I braced myself for something, ' Be that something what it might? My chair was near the fire, ■ - And my slippers by its side ; My. pipe was very handy, And my papers open wide, And she wore the pretty breastpin That. I gave her when a bride. The dinner was perfectionIt was laVish Without waste ; The soup was vermicelli' And exactly to my taste, "While the dessert was a triumph Gf artistic skill in paste.. And when the meal was overj And the inner man at rest, She drew her chair beside me, With the baby on her breast. I felt, and so I told her, I- was one among the blest. Oh! the smile of tender radiance That Uluinmed all her face, As I clasped her to my bosom '?? ■ In a lover's fond embra.ce — It was then' she' softly Whispered, 4 • Won't you let me have that lace ?"