MY BONNY KATE
MY BONNY KATE!
The sultry sun with angry eye,
Gleams from the lurid summer sky,
Through all the veins of red July,
My bonny Kate!
So, very sad and very lone,
I sit beside the window stone
Musing on months forever flown,
My bonny Kate!
This very day, one year ago,
I roamed where Charleston fronts the foe,
And loved, but did not tell you so,
It was my fate.
But soon I sought your eager eyes
And answered all their glad surprise
With love that falters not nor dies,
My bonny Kate!
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