LOVE’S QUESTIONINGS.
Maiden, tell, and tell me truly. Can you make a pigeon pie ? Can yon deal with bacon duly, Slice it thin, and watch it fry ? Can you, filled with plaintive sadness, Make a dainty mayonnaise ; Compassing its ordered madness Still by new and subtle ways ? Can you with ambitions fingers Salads tenderly contrive. Such that while their mem’ry lingers It is good to be alive. Sweet, I would not seem to doubt you ; More than all for you I care; But I still must live without yon If you cannot jug a hare. Do you e’er with rapture quiver Crimping salmon newly caught ? Can you deal with fried pig’s liver As a skilful artist ought ? Gentle maiden, blue-eyed maiden, If snch deeds yonr hands can do, Lo ! my heart with love is laden, And I’m fain to marry you. The Gourmet.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue VI, 9 February 1895, Page 144
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143LOVE’S QUESTIONINGS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue VI, 9 February 1895, Page 144
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