EXASPERATION.
lx timid love I wooed with zeal and fire Her family : sought favour with her sire By gifts of books galore and walking sticks And silver match-safes ; till I did perspire Discussed the daily news and politics. In trembling love I sent her mother flowers At vast expense : exerted all mv powers : Carried her packages and held her shawl And talked about dyspejeia. Hours on hours Played tennis with her brother, young and small And wearisome. Walked with her uncle : took Her aunt to drive : made presents to the cook, The gardener. And ’neath the weak’ning strain Knew, with the shrinkage of my pocketbook, A loss of flesh and reeling of the brain. What mingling, then, of happiness and ire. Of bliss and rage, when my throbbing desire I panted forth—and she with downcast smile Murmured, with tender colour mounting higher, * Yes, dearest, yes ! I’ve liked you afi the while.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 49, 6 December 1890, Page 20
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151EXASPERATION. New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 49, 6 December 1890, Page 20
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