Lines in Pleasant Places Rhythmics of many moods and quantities. Wise and otherwise |
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[In the crowded street we found him] |
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[In the crowded street we found him]
In the crowded street we found him,
With the busy world around him,
'Neath a potent spell that bound him,
With suspended footstep there,
Smiling on a neighboring “winder,”
With a vision nought to hinder,
And a heart as quick as tinder,
Caught by charms surpassing fair.
With the busy world around him,
'Neath a potent spell that bound him,
With suspended footstep there,
Smiling on a neighboring “winder,”
With a vision nought to hinder,
And a heart as quick as tinder,
Caught by charms surpassing fair.
There upon him, sweetly gazing,
Were two eyes like diamonds blazing,
All his sense and soul amazing,
And he stood like one alone,
Jostled by the people rushing,
—Heeding not the jarring, crushing,
All his soft emotions gushing,—
Vowing he'd make her his own.
Were two eyes like diamonds blazing,
All his sense and soul amazing,
And he stood like one alone,
Jostled by the people rushing,
—Heeding not the jarring, crushing,
All his soft emotions gushing,—
Vowing he'd make her his own.
In his arms he'd fain infold her,
But his worldly-wise beholder
Seized him rudely by the shoulder,
—Turned they on the Circe their backs;
Leaving without ceremony,—
“Don't you see,” he said, “you looney,
That this maid, on whom you're spooney,
Is an image made of wax?”
But his worldly-wise beholder
Seized him rudely by the shoulder,
—Turned they on the Circe their backs;
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“Don't you see,” he said, “you looney,
That this maid, on whom you're spooney,
Is an image made of wax?”
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