Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1912 — VERSE WORTH READING. [ARTICLE]

VERSE WORTH READING.

The Lapfuf of Nuts. Whews*er I see soft hazel eyes And nut-brown curls, I think of those bright days I spent Among the Limerick girls; When up, through Crat!a woods l went Nutting with thee; And we plucked the glossy clustering fruit 3'7 ■ Front many a bending tree. Beneath the hazel boughs we sat. Thou. love, and I; And the gathered n-is lay in thy lap. Beneath thy downcast eye; But little we thought of the store we’d ■ Won, .Y* ' I, love, or thou; ...... F&r“ our hearts were full and we dam .not own '■ < ■ - ::■'■ ■’Y , The love that’s spoken now. -'3/1 Oh. there** wars-for willing hearts in Spain, And high Germanle! And I’ll come back, ere long again With knightly fame and fee; And I’ll come back. If I ever come back. Faithful to thee, That sat with thy white lap foil of nuts. - "Beneath the hazel tree. —Sir Samuel Ferguson.