"DECEIVERS EVER."

Otago Witness, Issue 2695, 8 November 1905, Page 67

" DECEIVERS EVER."

I passed the Z girls down +he street; They just bowed to me coldly. We never speak now when we meet,

But Johnny claimed me boldly. The reason is not hard to find

Why some girls eye me coldly; But all the world to me seems kind

When Johnny claims me boldly. His rcguish glance half drives them mad — The girls all sigh for Johnny. Oh l I'm the lass a.nd he's the lad,

My lad sac braw and bounie. The fruit trees with their blossoms part,

The boughs axe green add sappy. The warmth of spring is in her heart —

Oh, mother, I'm so happy! " 'Tis love, my child, stirs in your breast,

But dae na lo'e too blindly; May curses on his head aye res' "Who tieats my girl unkindly." "Well dressed and neat, all latest styles,

She came from some big city; She had the manner that beguiles,

The boys all thought heT pretty. Her step was graceful at the dance,

Her smiles aye sweet and sunny ; Her sweetest smile, her softest glancfc, She kept them both for Johnny.

Betrayed, abandoned to despair,

She stands beside the river; The angry flood waves race and tear:

A plunge, and all is over. They found the body nine miles down,

But not till next year's swallows This letter from a far-off town

Arrived, which read as follows: — "Forgive! I tried hard to be true;

My witness God "above is. Before I only thought I knew, But now I know what love is."

— SxiLß.

"Westland, October, 1905