Selected Poetry.

Western Star, Issue 859, 12 July 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

Selected Poetry.

WAITING. See that beauteous maiden there, Tripping 1 gaily o’er the green; She is hasting o’er to where Her lover, I, have waiting been. Yes, she’s hasting o’er to me! For she knows that I am here, Waiting, ’neath the trysting tree Watching, till she may appear! Saw you e’er such beauty rare Gracing this lov’d earth of ours ? And she’s true as she is fair— Pure as are the dew-laved flowers ! O, ye zephyrs! as she seeks Me, beneath this tree-shade gloom. Softly blow upon her cheeks— Blow the roses into bloom 1 Ess but sparingly her lips— Steal not all the sweets away; For I’m jealous of the sips— Leave them all for me to-day, - With her hair of golden wealth Play not harshly, as it streams; Set her eyes aglow with health, Soon I’ll bask beneath their beams. For she’s hasting o’er to me, Well she knows that I am here ' Waiting;’neath the trysting tree— Watching, till she may appear! Vive Vale. 0,:.y0 MINNIE. Let artists enraptured by toil and by art Display types of beauty ideal in their heart, While I, a poor bardie, can only enshrine Arid sing of sweet Minnie who’s centred in mine. Great masters of music there are and have been. Who’ve turned their best notes in praise of oK- some queen; But had they once seen her, I vow and dei! dare, Young Minnie had moved them to efforts more rare. i Old Homer has told us how Helen of Troy Bewitched all the Greeks, who did armies destroy; Her beauty, no doubt, was entrancing and : "rare, ■But 1 -never surpassed pretty Minnie’s I’ll wot!! swear. The sculptor, for months, he may chisel and r ’ chip, 'Perfecting a head, leg, arm, or a lip; . Yet vain all his labour—stone never can be So warm as fair Minnie, or graceful as she. A painter will daub, and re-daub for a year. Some ideal vision to limn and make clear ; -Then change, and re-change, for some new

t<: airy flame, But Minnie’s, perfection, and ever the same. C. M’Millan.