HER MISTAKE.
Love laid a heart down at her feet, Small feet that found life's pathway sweet — So sweet, so smooth, so full of play, A heart seem'd only in the way. Sha listen'd' to its beats awhile, Then gently dropt it with a smile;. She had all toys except a heart, And hearts, she v heard, could ache and smart. 1 For fear of love, its cost and pain, For love of life, her life was vain. Poor foolish feet, that thought to tread The ways reserved for happy dead I —K.M., in Westauniter Bu4g«t.
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Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 102, 27 October 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)
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96HER MISTAKE. Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 102, 27 October 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)
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