"I'LL TELL YOU YOUR FORTUNE, PRETTY MAID."

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 332, 9 January 1889, Page 8

"I 'LL TELL YOU YOUR FORTUNE, PRETTY MAID."

I* I'll tell you,' yojur fottipe.^itlty maidj! 1 ?! " \ v ou 'may, if you'll teint.true." .',' Well, I pnp/tja tty<ly % o,u Iqv'q right \yell A ladm vailoVs blue. .';, - " A sailor lad \vjjbh a brisrH l}]a.ck-eye ? * And ft heait iiotlt kind and p'tronjj."* } v " NayjgosSipr'sheHaii'l, with n merry laugh, •* You never were fuither wrong 1 . ' .- , .'; The Ud J loye Ims u luiffl't blue eye -j A bpltei 'ad never wm.s born ; •»; •• He isp't to inntch Ijehintl a plough^ " ' Nnr y.et in the hay op corn. He never jvjus in a togsing spip ; -• H« never was near the sea ; His home, it stands in a field of ; And tinder an Apple tree." «" A farmer boy ! And ypu loye [»mi svell ? Ah, that is a better fate l t „ Just cross my hup'd, and I'll* f qll you, child, Ho>v long ypp $vill huve to , „ Kre you snail ?fpile at the bedding i*iri^ And the bridal morn shall see, And go to the hopje ip £h,e \yheat-field Set under the apple-tree. ." It is np£ long 1 , if the stars speak true — And jvne-n do they spenk in vain ?—? — You }v|ll marry the farmer boy you love \Y|ien the summer comes again." x •Then merrily ran)? ?. mocking laugh — !' Ah, go's^ipj ho^v little you know ! For pjyfarmej.-'ljp.y aud | tfev'e wed A year and a half ago ! v " , of good.^may come to us, yv }ia|;eye}- of grief or ill, Potnes not tj'om any planet or star — It comes of our Fathei's will. •The jny or sopow of future years No nioital can eyer show ; JLIo knovi-ptli the way fhat we shall take, Ami tliat'Js enough to know." - ,