POETRY FROM PERIODICALS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13480, 3 July 1907, Page 9

POETRY FROM PERIODICALS

» THE EARL AND THE GIRL. tj 11 ; A MODERN ROMANCE. I. THE girl was rich and lovely—the youth a e handsome Earl. s Their fathers, Eton " chums," arranged s " The. lad shall wed the girl." , Alas! a handsome tutor taught the maiden 1 the guitar, "They eloped; the Earl was captured by an i-1 operatic " star." I I 11. ! CM The tutor drank himself to death before a el year was o'er; e |The Earl divorced his Countess (she had been 'I divorced before). M'Thc widow and the "widower" vow'd they'd h i never wed again ; n ITheir lathers argued, pleaded, swore, but all .■ J was quite in vain. | lIL ■- The Earl wont off to Scotland with his gun, ~ I his pipe, his dog; ; The girl wont, to the. Highlands— was s "sick of London fog"; y She wanted '"rest and solitude." a "lonely i. ! Highland cot." s i Fate chuckled., for the Earl had fixed upon VJ the self-same spot. -1 IV. ' jThey met one morning on the moors—they I both were much surprised: [The girl had come for solitude, but— had '. I lovely eyes ! -They met each morning after that—the end, p | of course, you know ; Thev loved—were wed—the fathers smiled, 11 I and said, "We planned it so." .1' The Reader. M