Not Too Early, Pretty Doves.
fT( w is if, littlp lady itubp, That you in silence sit «rrt pine 9 W t.|l in your teen=<, and have not heard TT->»v woithlrss is a youngster's word I WUv, if he'd meant if, kppt it true, It h"\<\ bppn worpp for both of you. Boyish vow/i are better broken, M sseV fpcrpts never spoken : Sin i? wpII-r day. If I«s«ps would say nay The lads wouM stay away. Abs, my s'ripling, Fiqbing there, And fctnrin^ into empty air, Too r>i«tla of a rustic rown Will trap a fellow freeh from town I Up, sir, for "ham? ! let folly go, And think your stars pbo apnwl you so. Shallow brairs are better parted, Soon are cured such broken-hearted: f inpj we'l-a-day, If hds would stay away No lassie could cay nay. Coo not too rarly, protty dovoi; Pin-feather fincips, callow loves, "Sly little birdlinrfl. they rprnain_ No more than rainbows .ifter rain. A Rtrl't? a boy, a boy's a fool, And lifp it proves a sorry school; When the chickens fix the feather, Know there will be charjge of weather: Sing well-a-day — Lo, yonder hies away Oiiui toTabitha!
—John Vance Cheney.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2048, 22 August 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)
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198Not Too Early, Pretty Doves. Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2048, 22 August 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)
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