Denzil place a story in verse. By Violet Fane [i.e. M. M. Lamb] |
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Ah, here, if marriage of the young and fair,—
If blooming cheeks and lovely sunny head,
Wedding with brave brown eyes and stalwart frame
And manly heart, e'er promised happiness,
Then should these two, who like some glowing dream
Of Prince and Princess in a fairy-tale,
So gaily gallopp'd past me, on the road
To Life and Love; then should these two be bless'd
With ev'ry earthly good;—around their knees
May happy children laugh and sport in glee,
And children's children, in the after years—
Good little Geoffreys and fair Constances,
Who must not sin like naughty grandpapa,
Or pretty grandmama, who died so young,
And whose sweet picture, in a muslin dress
“With coral-color'd sash and shady hat,
And looking like an angel,” they will see
Hanging within the walls of Denzil Place.
If blooming cheeks and lovely sunny head,
Wedding with brave brown eyes and stalwart frame
And manly heart, e'er promised happiness,
Then should these two, who like some glowing dream
Of Prince and Princess in a fairy-tale,
So gaily gallopp'd past me, on the road
To Life and Love; then should these two be bless'd
With ev'ry earthly good;—around their knees
May happy children laugh and sport in glee,
And children's children, in the after years—
Good little Geoffreys and fair Constances,
Who must not sin like naughty grandpapa,
Or pretty grandmama, who died so young,
And whose sweet picture, in a muslin dress
“With coral-color'd sash and shady hat,
And looking like an angel,” they will see
Hanging within the walls of Denzil Place.
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