Sweet Seventeen.
Dainty littlo maiden with the soulful eyes, Still you seem umvardly, still from meanness free ; Havfc you 'kept from growing fashionably wise? Are .you est-ill thci soul white saint j you se«eni to be 1?
Men aro leering ait you—<men who'st ibloßid ia ' etald ; You arc hearing winmrn bnndy i ribald jests; Yon are touching elbow's with those who luvvo ■'ii";
Virtue for the jowteils gleaming on their- bitaists.
Sin is smiliivgl ait yo'ii from the printed page, Honour i£ triittltxll, wantons niouk ita wortli; Shame ia madts alttradtive on the gaudy stage, Infamy paraded to arouse your mirth. Wickedness is fiaunteid everywhere you turn, Yit'C, aiTayed! in splendor; trtuutj; you shadeilessly; Painty^ little maiden, havo yon failtil to learn
Are yoii still the soul white splint you ought to be?
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Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10348, 22 April 1911, Page 5 (Supplement)
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133Sweet Seventeen. Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10348, 22 April 1911, Page 5 (Supplement)
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