Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1887 — No Rose Without Its Thorn. [ARTICLE]

No Rose Without Its Thorn.

I came upon her unaware As at her father's gate she stood; She looked so sweet, she looked so fair, Her rosy month looked O, so good, She gave a little scream of fright And pinched my arm, the saucy miss; Then, seeing there were none in sight, I clasped her close and stole a kiss. i One, only one; I did not care To kiss her rosy lips again, ! I wrung my hands, I tore my hair, I ground my teeth in awful pain; Her lips were soft, but O, beneath y —-(The words I said, they were a sin) She held between her pearly teeth A little demon cf a pin! —[ C incinnati Times-Star. .- I '■