Select Poetry.
TELL-TALES. >v 'Vv^' ___^__ " ■ - ■ « *"f Oh! don't you remember, ', ; i ,"v Long time ago, "' ■';'-."-''•."?■s When the path was in December < Covered o'er with snow ? Then wa had a little walk. Then we had a little talk, ■. f But jealous eyes did soon divine The footsteps there were not all mine :— Oh! the snow, , The tell-tale snpw, Long time ago! *■£"■*" Oh! don'ty&tiremember On that evening fair, _/>\ When the jasmine flowers you braided^ In the raVen/hair ? Homeward then I fcnoughtless strand And the jasmine flowers betray'd; . rf - For well the jealous glance's knew * No jasmine in our garden grew ;' j> >V£ Oh! the flower, . * The tell-tale flower, Long time ago f And when we wore both forbidden Evermore to meet, Silly, little notes were hidden By the willow seat, But vainly jor a note we sought: Could we each other have forgot! Ah; others knew as well as we The secret of that hollow tree, Oh! the tree, the hollow tree, It betrayed both you at.d me, Long time ago!
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4610, 13 October 1883, Page 1
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170Select Poetry. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4610, 13 October 1883, Page 1
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