SELECT POETRY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 182, 3 August 1871, Page 7

SELECT POETRY.

GRAMMATICAL LOVE.

IN DICTEBENT MOODS AND TENSES.Sally Salter, she was a young teacher who taught. And her friend, Billy Church, was a preacher ■who fraught, Though his euemies called him a screecher who scmught. His heart when he saw her, kept sinking, and sunk ; And his eye, meeting hers, began winking, and wank, While she, in her turn, fell to thinking, and thunk. He hastened to woo her, and sweetly he wooed. For his love grew until to a mountain in grewed, And what he was longing to do then he doed. Tn secret he wanted to speak, and he spoke. To seek with" his lips what his heart long had soke ; So he managed to let the truth leak, and it loke. He asked her to ride to the church, and they rode, They so sweetly did glide, and they both thousbt they glode, Aad they came to a place to be tied, and were tode. Then homeward, he said, let us drive, and they drove, And as soon as they wished to arrive, they arrove ; For whatever he couldn't contrive, she controve. The kiss he wps dying to steal then he stole, At the feet where he wanted to kneel then he knole, And he said, " I feel better that ever I fole." So they to each other kept clinging, and clung, While Time his swift circuit was winging and wung, And this was the thing lie wa» bringing and brung : The man Sally wanted to catch and had caught— That she wanted from others to snatch and had snaught"Was the one she now liked to scratch, and sue scraught. And Billy's warm love began freezing and froze, "While be took to teazing and cruelly t«ze The girl he had wished to be squeezing and squoze. *' Wretch !" he cried, jwhen she threatened to leave him and left, " How could you deceive me as you have deceft?" And she answered, "I promised to leave and I've left V — " Gentleman's Journal."