TO FLIRTS.
Aye, smile, ye false beauties, And piioil while ye can That temple unguarded, Tho hcait of a man Brief, brief is yenu biumpli, The day iVitiwoth nrh "When ye, too, for jvly All vainly e lui l l ciy. Tho oak that tbe tempest Tlath amain, Thoiu'li stript ot spier dour' Shall bud forth a-.'sni. lint ihe bWpcin, once broken, A r o r i,c can re-stove, It Wles hl'o a fiur ch-pain And Had.?. 'is no >r>orc. ■ So nifin's ri'ircly spint, Tluit falf." love lays low, Shall n-e when Ambition I His trumpet i!<ail blow. But the vcA he.it of «.'.>u?nri, That b'oecls wii'i love' 3 wound, E'en Tune* hcjlhi,' ili^ci's Con never make fouiuL H. J. B.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2318, 4 August 1898, Page 42
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121TO FLIRTS. Otago Witness, Issue 2318, 4 August 1898, Page 42
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