A Summer Christmas and a Sonnet upon The S.S. "Ballaarat." By Douglas B. W. Sladen |
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All vied in kindliness to Lil
Her cup of ectasy to fill
To overflowing. She had been
So warm and gentle in her mien
To everyone. The only chaff,
Tempered by a disarming laugh,
Was Kit's, who put it in this wise
“It's not fair to monopolize
The only safe man of them all
Who may not, if he wants to, fall
In love with us, with whom we can
Enjoy ourselves like man with man,
Without inspiring false alarms
Of being victims to their charms.
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To overflowing. She had been
So warm and gentle in her mien
To everyone. The only chaff,
Tempered by a disarming laugh,
Was Kit's, who put it in this wise
“It's not fair to monopolize
The only safe man of them all
Who may not, if he wants to, fall
In love with us, with whom we can
Enjoy ourselves like man with man,
Without inspiring false alarms
Of being victims to their charms.
“Lil, you our benefactress are
For thus disabling for the war
Another of the skirmishers
Hovering to cut off stragglers
Who chance to fall out from the flanks
Of the firm Amazonian ranks.
For thus disabling for the war
Another of the skirmishers
Hovering to cut off stragglers
Who chance to fall out from the flanks
Of the firm Amazonian ranks.
“A woman can't be fair and free
Without men fancying that she
Acknowledges their kindling eye
And irresistibility.”
Without men fancying that she
Acknowledges their kindling eye
And irresistibility.”
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