IF SHE COULD ONLY COOK.
You have not changed, my Geraldine :] Your voice is just as sweet and low, 1 You are as fairy-like in mien, As four-and-twenty months ago. Since Hymen tied the fatal knot I've basked within your glanco'a beam ; Your beauty has not dimmed a jot, You realise a poet's dream. A poet craves for boundless love And beauty of the first degree; I'd do with less than that, my dove— I'm much more moderate than ho, The gleam from dark-fringed eyelids sent, The witchery of tone and look, I would forego to some extent, My Geraldine—if you could cook 1
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 645, 11 February 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)
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104IF SHE COULD ONLY COOK. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 645, 11 February 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)
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