GO AWAY!

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4546, 18 November 1882, Page 3

GO AWAY!

With a bumpy swish and a curdled row, Sweet Mary's churn goes drumming; Young Eeubom leans on the low half-door, Amd hopes that tho butter's coining ; Then sighs and sighs, and drops his eyes— What wards can his feelings utter? "O, drop me in the churn," he cries, " And make me into butter ? " Sho rests her hands, and (gazing stands At sound of his words' vagary j Then plies the Btaff with a lightsome laugh, "O, go away," says Mary. If a maiden's word means ought, they say, The opposite sense is in it; So Keubea finds in her " Go away 1" A " Just come in a minnto." " I hope," says he, " I may make so frae," With a grin and a nervous stutter; " My answer should be to your ears," says sho, " If I could but leavo the butter." His arm on the shelf that holds the dolf, He looks across the dairy; " Shall Igo to her side ? Shall I dare her pride ?" " O, go away 1" says Mary. Ho takes the hint, and he takea a kiss, With fears and inward quaking, She does not take what he takes amiss, Nor seem ia an awful taking, Sweet kisses he takes so lond and fast That he takes her breath completely; He takes her tight in his arms at last, And still she takes it sweetly, The heart of the boy is full of joy ; He has won her—his bird, his fairy: " I'll go outright for the ring to-night I" " O, go away I" says Mary.