Ada Kehaii.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1818, 1 March 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

Ada Kehaii.

[The writer of the following anatomical study evidently has it very bad. But then his verse ia not entirely so. She ia grand and fair, like Diana of old, Or Aphrodite, sprung from the sea — From her queenly head, with its coils of gold, To the tip of her sandal, a goddess she 1 Her lips of carmine twin rosebuds are — Twin rosebuds are they, dropped in snow; Her hands are lillies a touch might mar, Yet c'en to touch them would bliss bestow. 'Neath the arch of her slender Spanish feet The flow of a crystalline brook might run, Yet she treads on heaits till their shuddering beat Is dulled and stifled, and all is done. Her eyes are melting, and tender and blue, Like the sun on a lake when the day expires; They steal from the sapphire its magic hue, They borrow the diamond's myriad fires. Through these twin windows her soul is seen Like a dainty flow'r in a crystal vase, Yet her meshes of hair of golden sheen Are nets to trap those on her gaze. Ah me 1 She is fair, like Dian of old — Like Dian of old she is grand and fair ; Yet, like the goddess, her heart is cold— Unlike the goddess, her smile's a snare. Still, were she Dian, and Action I, And she and her nymphs in the woodland stream, From the goddess' anger I ne'er would fly, Nor heed her nymphs or their startled scream. Nay, like Aclicon, I'd avidly spy, Like Action, turn to a stag of ten — In the jaws of the hounds I would gladly die To gaze on my goddess alone of men I —Amadis.