. The lays of a lawyer . LOVE WITH MARGINAL NOTES WROTE some verses on a day; With pangs of love overflowing,And left them in a careless wayUpon my desk, unknowing. Sweet Martha enters all Richard loves her dearly:For Dick is not to riches born—To slender wages merely. Ah, can they marry on a thou— She sees a likely marginAbout the verses that just now I told my love at large in. Her pretty head with figures filled— She snatches up the paper,And soon the items all are billed In columns long and taper. A pound of muttons 20 cents, And 40 cents for scrawled across— the l
. The lays of a lawyer . LOVE WITH MARGINAL NOTES WROTE some verses on a day; With pangs of love overflowing,And left them in a careless wayUpon my desk, unknowing. Sweet Martha enters all Richard loves her dearly:For Dick is not to riches born—To slender wages merely. Ah, can they marry on a thou— She sees a likely marginAbout the verses that just now I told my love at large in. Her pretty head with figures filled— She snatches up the paper,And soon the items all are billed In columns long and taper. A pound of muttons 20 cents, And 40 cents for scrawled across— the love intense My lips can never utter. 38 The price of coal to some extentOerlaps my mistress scorn; $500 for the rent Blots out— my soul is torn ! Sweet Martha, true and tender maid,How well you dot and carry! But, Martha, dear, when all is , does it pay to marry ? 39. AUTUMN DAYS HE leaveshave strewn^ the rustUngways,The birdsare strangelystill; (^ u^The millnd in these autumn days Isfbleak ancFsroicffiifc chill. i^d hopes which sitiiled through summer haze Are dead and gone these autumn days. 40
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