SELECT POETRY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 101, 15 January 1870, Page 7

SELECT POETRY.

Dark or fair. (FROM "LONDON SOCIETY.") Maiden fair With the golden hair — Sweet brunette With the locks of jet, As you roam side by side On the marge of tbe tide, I know not on which my heart I should set. The hazel orb Will the heart absorb, And the eye of blue Is tender and true ; But when both are together This sunshiny weather, Their powers combined must our peace undo. Beautiful pair, Our bosom spare ! The moon and the sun Shine never as one ; And why should you two Both rise on our view When either alone had our worship won ! From crown unto feet In beauty complete, Like the night and the day Together you stray, Past the pier and the shipping So daintily tripping In your pretty, bewitching, unconscious way ! The maiden fair Would I gladly declare My darling— and yet There's the dark-eyed brunette ! And I vow on my word To say which I preferred Is a question with terrible doubt beset. What shall I do To decide 'twixt the two ! So beautiful both That to choose I am loth, And which was the fairest, The sweetest and rarest, I could not declare, were I put on my oath ! If I ventured to toss It would end in my loss, Since if " woman " I cried, There'd be one on each sideHere Britannia is seen— And there our loved Queen ! [lied. So on no coign of 'vantage 'twould prove I reBrunette and fair maid, Like sunshine and shade — Each in her sphere Is the loveliest here, And I own I'm as fond Of brunette as of blonde — A shocking confession I very much fear.