CUPID’S COUPLETS.
I struggle hard to woo my love in rhyme, But always miss it in the second line; Inscribing Sophy what is dear ‘ to keep,’ I’m sure to sicken it with something ‘ sweet.’
I galiy launch a bright, ambitious ‘ hope,’ When, presto 1 it goes under in a ‘ boat;’ And when I write ecnomiums on ‘ home,’ I ruin them by wailing out ‘ alone !’
The pathetic beauties of a ‘ single man ’ Are roughly coupled with a ‘ loving lamb The weighty phrase, ‘ My heart is not a feather,’ Must needs fly falsely into ‘ love forever !’
When love-tangbt fancy plays the ‘ lover’s harp,’ The music’s lost in the ‘ divinest art;’ A master-line, extolling ‘ beauty’s sum,’ Spontaneously drivels into ‘one.’ C.D.H.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue II, 14 July 1894, Page 48
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118CUPID’S COUPLETS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue II, 14 July 1894, Page 48
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