. The book of ballads . LiGHTSo^iE, brightsome, cousin mine ! Easy, breezy Caroline!With tliy locks all raven-sliaded,From tliy merry brow up-braided,And thine eyes of laughter full, Brightsome cousin mine !Thou in chains of love hast bound me-Wherefore dost thou flit around me, Laughter-loviug- Caroline ? When I fain would go to sleep In my easj chair,Wherefore on my slumbers creep—WTierefore start me from repose,Tickling of my hooked nose, Pulling of my hair ?Wherefore, then, if thou dost love me,So to words of anger move me, Corking of this face of mine, Tricksv cousin Carohne ? * ^^^. When
. The book of ballads . LiGHTSo^iE, brightsome, cousin mine ! Easy, breezy Caroline!With tliy locks all raven-sliaded,From tliy merry brow up-braided,And thine eyes of laughter full, Brightsome cousin mine !Thou in chains of love hast bound me-Wherefore dost thou flit around me, Laughter-loviug- Caroline ? When I fain would go to sleep In my easj chair,Wherefore on my slumbers creep—WTierefore start me from repose,Tickling of my hooked nose, Pulling of my hair ?Wherefore, then, if thou dost love me,So to words of anger move me, Corking of this face of mine, Tricksv cousin Carohne ? * ^^^. When a sudden sound I hear,Much my nervous system suffers, Shaking- throug-h and throug-h,—Cousin CaroHne, I fear, T was no other, now, but jouPut gunpowder in tlie snuffers, Springing such a mine !Yes, it was your tricksy self,Wicked-tricked, little elf, >aug-hty cousin Caroline! Pins she sticks into my shoulder. Places needles in my , when I begin to scold her,Tosses back her combed hairWith so saucy-vexed an air,That the pitying beholderCannot brook that I should scold herThen again she comes, and anew this face of cousin Caroline! Would she only say slie d love tinsome Caroline, Unto such excess t would move me,Teazing, pleasing, cousin mine : ^S^S^^=-
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