WOOING AND WINNING.

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1590, 3 July 1874, Page 273

WOOING AND WINNING.

" Would you play the manly lover ?" "■'' ;U: Said a gray beard to his sod, '• u;; " List, my lad, while I discover .},,: How a maiden should be won. •' Woo her not with boastful phrases, • : Lest you teach her lip to sneer ; " ■ Still a suitor's warmest praises In his conduct should appear. , A " 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 J O'er your poverty of pelf, Lest.she answer by declining ' Both your sorrows and yourself. ''Woo :hef with a .manly, wooing ' Giving hostages to Fate, All the heart's devotions 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 ' r : You are equal to the i strife. '.. ■: i " Like the knighfc'-whose simple suing ■

: Wonth? lady: (says the tale), i ■■■'.■■■ When, despite their wordy wooing, .. ; ~ All. the rest,were doomed to fail. ".'Lady,' quoth the bold knight-errant, ' Brief the story I shall tell,' I Would'wed thee; here's the"'warrant—- • ' I Shall love andserve thee well.-" " And, behold, his dexter fingers Crush a horse-shoe like a reed j .. • And within her lap,there lingers i,,,., All the gold the twain can need."