Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1883 — A Modest Lover. [ARTICLE]

A Modest Lover.

There’s one whom I deeply, truly love. And yet, though my heart she n*s won, She is not an angel from above, And her eyes are nothing like the sun. Although her lips are pretty and coy, The ruby is far more red than they. Although her sweet voice gives me joy, Yet music sounds in a sweeter way. Iler cheeks are pretty and blushing red, And still the rose is far more so, Her breath, though sweet, be it freely said, Is not so sweet as perfume I know. When she walks her feet but tread the earth, She sips not the nectar when she eats, And yet 1 think her of equal worth, With any the boastful poet greets. —Elmer Dwiggiite, in Chicago Inter-Ocean. The above verses indicate, clearly enough, that our young friend, the author, is suffering severly from a painful case of “mash.” We are glad to assure him however, on the evidence of the poem itself, that the attack has passed beyond the dangerous stages or he could never be brought to admit that his lady’s attractions could be excelled by anything m the*whole scope of the universe.