COQUETTE.
" Coquette," my love they sometimes call, . ■ For she- is light of lips and heart ; What though she smile alike on all, If in her smiles she knows no art ? Like some glad brook she 'seems to be, ' ' - 4lThat ripples o'er its pebbly bed, " And prattles to each flower or tree, ' ' ■ Which itoops to kiss it, overhead. Beneath the heaven's white and blue It purls and sings and laughs and leaps, ' The sunny meadows dancing through ■ O'er noisy, shoals and frothy, steeps. 'Tis thus the world doth see thebrook ; But I have seen it otherwise, ' > « '"A When following it, to «ome far nook ' s. " ' Where leafy •hieldMb.uk out the ■kie». And' there its waters rest, caubdaed,' ' ' ' In shadowy pools* serene and' shy, .' Wherein, grave thoughts; aniLf&ncies brood And tender dreams an^longings li«. ■ - , •I love it'when it laughs and lft»ps, J » - ' , -> ' ' r l> Bnt love it better when At' reit^^ ' ' , f ;nc 'Tis only tin its tranquil deepi| A ( ,>> Vi'p^ t- r ?, ,^
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Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1556, 24 June 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)
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161COQUETTE. Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1556, 24 June 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)
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