LOVE POEMS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12648, 7 January 1904, Page 3

LOVE POEMS.

An amusing breach of promise action was heard in the Irish King’s Bench Division. The plaintiff was a daughter of a shopkeeper named M'Court, in Birr, King’s County, -and the defendant, whose name was Grimes, was the proprietor of an hotel at Youghal, county Cork. The defendant’s letters were largely effusions in verse. On January 24, 1902, he addressed her as “My dearest Alice,” and proceeded : If love were a rosebud, bedecked with dew, I would pluck it, my darling, and give it to you. If love were a jewel that money could buy, I would give thee a casket no queen could defy. But love is not purchased in whole or in part, So I have nothing to give thee but love and my heart. Rosebuds will wither and jewels are vain,

But on to eternity love will remain. In another letter, dated November 13, 1902, he again broke into poetry:— I love you, Alice, I love you, As dowers love the sun; Of all on earth to me of worth You are the only one. I love you, Alice, I love you, And well you know I do, Yet hear me say I love alway No other love but you. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with £250 damages.