SILHOUETTE
SILHOUETTE
Ladies and gallants, well a day!
If ride ye must, and will not stay,
Ah, do not ride in midmost May!
Lassie! be sure to take your brother;
Laddie! go not without grandmother;
Lassie and laddie, take no other!
For I have been the dupe of blisses—
My malison on blonden Misses,
With cherry months lip-full with kisses;
And jaunty hats with ribboned bows,
And beaded basques and—heaven knows
What gilded pitfalls full of woes!
Dear little bread and butter chit,
You jilted me I must admit—
And split my heart—the deuce a bit!
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