Select Poetry.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4833, 5 July 1884, Page 1

Select Poetry.

"." THE DUNE'S SERENADE. A frail young man with a tall white hat ' Sat oil a garden wall; Thejnoon was full, and so was the cat/ Of poetry, love,, and such things as that," , While a big dog Blinked on a vestibule mat, ' And the music sweet of a maiden's chat, Could be heard by the dude who stared while he sat, ' • - And sighed for a troubadour's gall. The Queen of Night shed her silver sheen i • Over the garden wall— And painted the-teees nnd the garden green, With the prettießtjpaint that e'er was seen, While the tall young man with his legs so lean * Took from his podcefaf sftmll machine— , 'Twas a flute, and in it were holes fifteen, And on it he worried the air " My Queen, Wilt thou list to my lonely call ?" " ' re From neighboring windows the boot-jacks - flew - " „ Toward the garden wall ; t But the more that came the harder he blew, And his lips to'the flute he'seemed to glu« And ha tooted away to his sweetheart true , 'Till his'knees to his chin he unconsciously drew And faded away in the azure blueT— Flute, legs, long hair, and all.