LAST JULY.
Sh#V barely twenty, and her eyes • Are very soft and very blue ; Her lifw seem made for sweet replies— r : Perhapi they're made for kisses, too j Her VttU teeth are wht>e a$ pearl, : Her nose aspires to the »ky. ;- n ■' She really is girlj: ' : ; : And I adored her— last Jnly. W* danced and % ewatn and bowled and ! walked 1 ! - Br eTe~ me squeeze her finger«tip« j Entranced I listened when she Hiked, i AikK ;ti at-h seemed wisdom from her lips. I sent Tier "roses till^my' purse \ I Was draiued, I found completely dry ; I longed to sing her charms m verat — ; But aU of thiswas last July— Of c«UT«t at last we had to i»rt ; - ' ' : fiiw ateir-drop on her ohetk ';'?■■ H S I ieftner'with^niaching heart; v sv 5 : And dreamt about her for a wetk. . But out of sight ia but of mind, .. , ; -: '. And somehow, ai the time Went by, : . Much fainter I began to find The, memory of ..last July. ' July has tome again at h st ; ~l ■ "_ ' With summer gowns the locks" are gay It seemed an: echpjofthe.^past : To meet her oa the beach to«day, She's even fairer than of yore, r And yet^l cduld not tell you why. ;I find the^irl jI an awful bore— j So long it is Eince last July. ■ ';(j Hi ■■: .>;••;/:!■;{ The Century,;,.
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Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1338, 4 November 1884, Page 4
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227LAST JULY. Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1338, 4 November 1884, Page 4
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