MINNIE.
Let artists enraptured by toil and hy art Display types of beauty ideal in their heart, While I, a poor bardic, can only enshrine And sing of sweet Minnie who's centred in mine. Great masters of music there are and have been, "Who've turned their best notes in praise of r some queen ; But had they once seen her, I vow and declare. Young Minnie had moved them to efforts more rare. Old Homer has told us how Helen of Troy Bewitched all the Greeks, who did armies destroy ; Her beauty, no doubt, was entrancing and 1 rare, But never surpassed pretty Minnie's I'll swear. The sculptor, for months, he may chisel and "chip, Perfecting a head, leg, arm, or a lip ; Yet Tain all his labour — stone never can be So warm as fair Minnie, or graceful as she. A painter will daub, and re-daub for a year, Some ideal vision to limn and make clear ; Then change, and re-change, for some new . airy flame, Bat Minnie's perfection, and ever the same. C. H'Millan.
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Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1626, 11 July 1884, Page 6
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176MINNIE. Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1626, 11 July 1884, Page 6
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