. The lays of a lawyer . ON EDITH MASQUERADING AS DI-ANA ON ST. VALENTINE^S DAY IAN Cupid winked his roguish eye,His fat sides shook with rubbed his hands and cried:Oh my! There will be fun hereafter ! Quoth he: Im laying even bets, Miss Dian will repent her Of flouting at me when she getsThe valentine Fve sent her. It seems that he his arrows hadExchanged for those she carried; It grieved the tender-hearted ladThat she had never married; And sure, thought he, amid the rout Of Tuesdays fancy dances If she but take an arrow out, Tis odds that something chances! Alas, alas, she left
. The lays of a lawyer . ON EDITH MASQUERADING AS DI-ANA ON ST. VALENTINE^S DAY IAN Cupid winked his roguish eye,His fat sides shook with rubbed his hands and cried:Oh my! There will be fun hereafter ! Quoth he: Im laying even bets, Miss Dian will repent her Of flouting at me when she getsThe valentine Fve sent her. It seems that he his arrows hadExchanged for those she carried; It grieved the tender-hearted ladThat she had never married; And sure, thought he, amid the rout Of Tuesdays fancy dances If she but take an arrow out, Tis odds that something chances! Alas, alas, she left unlatched That quiver full of she alone remains unscratched By those almighty arrows;26 So weeping sore we go our ways,Wherever our duty leadeth, But evermore we stop to gaze—On Dian ? —No, on *7
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