AN EVERY-DAY GIRL.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 358, 20 May 1884, Page 5

AN EVERY-DAY GIRL.

( . She's only an everyday girl, .' ,' " ''Without any s'emblarice of art, >* ' This wide-awake, sensible maid, { L , , To whom I have given my heart. She's woma'hlyi, gentle, and kind, )$ I The least little bit of a priide, -* Whose dignity is a rebuke ' 'To those too familiar,' or rude* \ 1 Shp's honest and frank' as the day, | Has never been known to deceive, And everything she' may assert \ i Is certainly safe to believe. . * >- er beauty is not of the kind , - To set any heart in a whirl,' •. '' .And light headed friendships arejnot . The choice of an every-day. girl. ? ;" Her taste in the. matter of dress Is neither too showy nor grave, But such as will lead you to guess She is uot to fashion a slave ; •> Yet many a one has turned round On meeting her out iv the street, To admire the everyday girl . Who looked so remarkably sweet. Her gifts and her-graces are not \ Set out in attractive array £ 1 o dazzle, or envey excite, . •..; Or ever for public, display. ; But sitty- s hc<i.k. her alone, ' ; "** Or wif :- hoioe fuw, you will find How good and :,ow .ureal is her heart, How nchly endowed is her mind. To her, you may, go, in your grief/ 1 * And freely your trouble rehearse: On her in your sickness dep^ad _For she is a capital nurse : ' Whatever the strait you are in VnW?" may glve y° a ' no heed, l ou 11 rind that an every-day girl Will furnish the help that you need. She's patient,. forbearing, and wise, trood-nature'd, kind-hearted, and And does with a resolute will The tasks that are set her to do. Ah. happy indeed is his lot, __ Without an occasion for strife, Who with f--nr>h an every-day girl . Can spend every day. of his life/