. The lays of a lawyer . do not choose for the little man, you may guess him, ifyou the funny shape and size of his nose-nose-nose : As he hands his little box to the maid withcurly locksHe says, while he bows: Will you take-take-take, The heart that lies inside, which youll find istrue and tried,While you eat the candies up for my sake-sake-sake ? Says the little maid in turn : Your heart Imust return, For hearts are seldom good for to eat-eat-eat, But the candies I will take, not for your hon-ors sake, But simply for the reason that theyresweet-sweet-sweet. 1
. The lays of a lawyer . do not choose for the little man, you may guess him, ifyou the funny shape and size of his nose-nose-nose : As he hands his little box to the maid withcurly locksHe says, while he bows: Will you take-take-take, The heart that lies inside, which youll find istrue and tried,While you eat the candies up for my sake-sake-sake ? Says the little maid in turn : Your heart Imust return, For hearts are seldom good for to eat-eat-eat, But the candies I will take, not for your hon-ors sake, But simply for the reason that theyresweet-sweet-sweet. 17 TO CHLOE IN RETURN FOR A COPY OF DE MUSSETS VERSES HEN the world was young andthe heavens were new,And the fauns and the satyrs had nothing to doBut to bask in the sunlight,admire the view. And flirt with the nymph sand the graces,*Twas then that the earth could afford to be her children were few and not much in the way,And she still had some time to herself in the dayAfter washing their hands and their faces ;. And being just then of poetical turn— (The author she was of the Elm and the Fern,Which she set to the tune of the soft tinklingburn)— By way of employing her hoursShe determined her former attempts to to bind to her side with links forged anewHer lover, the Sun—poetical too— So she wrote the sweet songs of the flowers : iS And, having procured a copy of these,Selected of course, for each one no maiden may read whatever she please— The reason ?—Im sure I dont know it,I send them to you as a token hope that their fragrance may manage to sayAs much as your heart in the very same way,As to mine did the lines of your poet.
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