Ella Wheeler's Latest.
.Oh, love 1 My love ! I could bust your wizen In the howling craze of my mad desire, I could tear you asunder from deck to mizzen, And roast your soul in a raging fire. I could yank your heart from your jumping bosom, And drown your life in a' sea of bliss — If I had a million lives I'd lose 'em, Tor a whoopingftohack at a fire-fringed kiss. I could chew your ear till the flashing gristla Collapsed like the crash of a wild cyclone. I could shriek in glee like a railroad whistle, And gnaw your chin to the gleaming bone. I could swallow your breath aa the toper swallows The fiery flaggon of rot-gut rye. I could wallow in love as the hot hog wallows, In the pliant depths of the backyard sty. I could snatch you bald in a holy minute, And yell like a Yahoo to hear you squeal. I oould peel your hide frcn your- head and pin it With fiery spike to your buling heel. Oh, yes, I could hug you, and kias you, and kill you, And yet my mad passion I'd never quell, You darling, delightful old liver pill, you, I'd make you believe you had landed in Tewksbury. —From " Poems of" Passion " in Minneapolis Tribune. 374,
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1884, 2 August 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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219Ella Wheeler's Latest. Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1884, 2 August 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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