THE CROCHETTERS.
[Addressed to three sisters, one of whom had re quested the author to " lend her a hand. 1 * in "winding off."] Away with your netting and knotting, A sad victim I am to your art : In your meshes I'm caught, and you're plotting To wind yourselves all round my heart ! When the hank I held out at your bidding, (Who can choose bnt be proud of yourchain?) As each wrist of its threads you were riding; What a tangle you made of my brain J At see-saw you played with my feelingg, And so crimson the thread as it flew, That it seemed all its inner revealings Jerk by jerk from my bosom you drew ! Then you praised me in accents so winning, Not to love you my heart has been steeled; My ideas you set fairly a-spinning, 'Twas my head, not my fingers, that reeled! Like " sweet bells out of tune harshly jangled"— Are my thoughts, now and then, it is true ; But the skein I don't mind getting tangled , If it be but unravelled by you ! My heart is all reticulated, When the mischief wss done I scarce know; Though its network, I fear, must be dated A good many summers ago ! Shakspere says, a true friend when you're found one To your soul with "steel hooks" yeu should hug ; And with three such crochettcrs around one, Where's the heart could escape from the tug P Would you try my heart's truth, I conjure ye, Don't "poetical justice" begrudge; Be the Muses and GKraces my jury - And Lord Chief Baron Cupid my judge. Aiaeic A. Watts.
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Southland Times, Issue 566, 21 September 1866, Page 2
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270THE CROCHETTERS. Southland Times, Issue 566, 21 September 1866, Page 2
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