Betty and Another.
I left my office* on the Quay, And strolled along the jetty ; Where in the lunch-hour you may see A friend who sometimes walks with me, Whose old-world name is Betty. It seems that she has been away — Up-country with her sister. And asi we looked across the bay, She shook her head to hear me say How much I reailly missed hex. From where the cranes swing high and low, She loved to see the stately Red-funnelled steamers come and go ; The ships with sails as white as snow — These pleased her fancy greatly. Thus would a golden hour slip by Beneath an azure heaven — A walk which closed dramatically With one great hue, a kiss a sigh, And — Betty's only seven I In that warm kiss, dear playmate mine, Came dreams of one September, Before I dared to eros« the line For isles of palm-tree, fern, and pine — Dear Bobs do you remember?
— W. Francis Chambers.
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Free Lance, Volume III, Issue 155, 20 June 1903, Page 7
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