The Stolen Picture.
TO MOINA LISAI
Ah! whither away <do you wander 0 pearl without, price, -without ■ peer, ■ ■ - O 1 gentle and gay Gjoconda'_.. ; ; Whose mystery year after year Held thousands of lovers ecstatic? Ah! who is it now you beguile With your magical, sly, enigmatic, Inscrutable smile? Has somebody maddened to ' rap'we By Cupid, that mischievous elf, Been led to effecting your "capture And keeping him all to 1 Himself?■■■■ Does he rave as he sits in his' afctioDevouring- your 1' feature's,' 'the while You respond with that sly, enigmatic, : • Inscrutable 'smile Or is'there, in hopes of a handsome "Pecuniary profit, some bold Villain holding you up for a ransom, Who finds you are not to be 3old! Is he anxious and growing abusive As you lie in his clutches and rile Him. to frenzy with mocking, elusive, Inscrutable smile Is it someone in search of sensation, Some journalist (ipeiisli the though*!) Who's proving the French asa'naiioa Don't guard you as well as they ought? \ '".■ "■■ * Whoever it is, let us pray that You'll return to us after a -while, Preservin? for many a day that Inscrutable smile —Daily Chronicle.
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Thames Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 10128, 9 December 1911, Page 6 (Supplement)
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190The Stolen Picture. Thames Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 10128, 9 December 1911, Page 6 (Supplement)
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