. The lays of a lawyer . TEMPORA MUTANTUR HEN you were five and I was seven We loved each other dearly;We kissed, it was a childish heaven To play at lovers merely;Full fifteen years and more had sped,— How swift the twelvemonths canter!No longer we at lovtrs played; Ah, tempora mutantur I » For you were fairer than the flowers,That loved to grow around you, A thing to gaze upon for dream about I found you, But when I begged for childhoods kissYou laughed in merry banter; As though it were conclusive, this :^ Sir, tempora mutantur / The times are changed, yes, Phyllis, very;My hair an
. The lays of a lawyer . TEMPORA MUTANTUR HEN you were five and I was seven We loved each other dearly;We kissed, it was a childish heaven To play at lovers merely;Full fifteen years and more had sped,— How swift the twelvemonths canter!No longer we at lovtrs played; Ah, tempora mutantur I » For you were fairer than the flowers,That loved to grow around you, A thing to gaze upon for dream about I found you, But when I begged for childhoods kissYou laughed in merry banter; As though it were conclusive, this :^ Sir, tempora mutantur / The times are changed, yes, Phyllis, very;My hair and beard are grizzled; 3 Tis hard to wait for Charons ferry,And think how life has fizzled ; The times do change, and so do we,But I still love you, PhyUis, And times may change for you and love dont change /;/ illisJ^ 14. TO PHYLLIS WITH A SKETCH AND A BOX OF SWEETS (^^^yAM very much afraid, that you know^llv^ this little maid, KjM^s Whose name I 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 childre
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