BEFORE THE BALL.
"What conquests will you make to-night— What new loves will adore you? Who'll swear your face is far more bright Than any seen before you 1 Who'll clasp your lithe waist in the dance, And prize utioh precious minute, And wonder if your tender glance Has any meaning in it ? • Who'll love you with an old-world love— Long since gone out of fashion ; Will burn to win and wear your glove, And plead an earnest passion ? Who, gazing on your child-like eyes, . V/ill deem you his ideal; And hanging on your sweet replies, Believe your,love is real ? Ah, Lady, let the dress be gny, And deft the handmaid's duty ; But spare ene idle moth to-day That flutters round your beauty. For you, who play a cruel part, So man)- loves forsaking, May one day know you have a heart, Aud chance to find it breaking. H. S. C.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1607, 1 September 1874, Page 341
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151BEFORE THE BALL. Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1607, 1 September 1874, Page 341
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