. St. Nicholas [serial] . ).:>.: i\ i -US is. AN OLD-TIME VALENTINE. ST. NICHOLAS. Vol. XVIII. FEBRUARY, 1891. No. 4. AN OLD-TIME VALENTINE. By Helen Gray Cone. One February midnight, while bright stars laughed above, A poet, in his garret, sat rhyming love and dove ;He drew his gown about him, because the air was chill; He wrote of Venus snowy swans, and dipped his gray goose quill. And when the cold east kindled with mornings rosy fires, When all the merry sparrows chirped, and sparkled all the spires, Appeared a proper bachelor, who could not write a line(At least in rhyme), in happy tim
. St. Nicholas [serial] . ).:>.: i\ i -US is. AN OLD-TIME VALENTINE. ST. NICHOLAS. Vol. XVIII. FEBRUARY, 1891. No. 4. AN OLD-TIME VALENTINE. By Helen Gray Cone. One February midnight, while bright stars laughed above, A poet, in his garret, sat rhyming love and dove ;He drew his gown about him, because the air was chill; He wrote of Venus snowy swans, and dipped his gray goose quill. And when the cold east kindled with mornings rosy fires, When all the merry sparrows chirped, and sparkled all the spires, Appeared a proper bachelor, who could not write a line(At least in rhyme), in happy time, to get his valentine. He grasped thehand that penned it, with fervor quite absurd; He cried, T is elegant indeed ! —a cheerful chink was heard,A silver sound of kissing coins; the poet rhymed for these, And yoked his teams of loves and doves to bring him bread and cheese ! To seal the precious missive, well pleased the lover sped; He sealed it with a heart and dart, extremely neat and red;He wrote upon the back a name (t was Jane, if tel
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