Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-01-10
First and Last Love.
4 PARODY.
TO M NJ w IP !


TO MY WIPE.
NO, tbou wort not my rst love- had loved bern-"
'I had learned she Tho bitter OF anguish and re-
greet"
..I b,vs told INV str,s.cs and all rose above
And thou wilt believe ma trae my ias my dearest
love"-RiehmOHd Enqntrer.
Nothou wsrt not my first oye;no not by hnlfa scores
hsaovea, before ns. VIII .s S uSlS ,O ssagt in
A"u eaeh HV'uN 'stt ss N ~ 1865 '
tnral, -. ,,....u,. c,,., ,,,o
AIhoUsni !. 0'es'neu' III eS' '"'"''' '''
oau'
II yyas yas not meant to prove apozate all The
,wll,e :, ,,,.,, s.., ami rcvslied IN her
,''N's ii, 81
snAls' s.,.,,.... 10 .,,h o,r idol
F'Of nv ~, ,H' ''ss' ~ oNs'
,, ,,,. n her ,rer. growing some
: = tttaIe. lsH
M, m 1,ov., or ,o,st loved which answered full
a. well,
r., a., NV t,, ;,h i,,. dreams "a many lay can tell,
~ wound was sure 10 bleed Just as The las,
was cured
,T,s not NV fault that Nature made my heart of such
so1 ,nonId
That lovely forms impressed thereon had no abiding
H4' hold hold, 'O'''''' '','DDe>
'D1si ray" - -,
shOne forth from some new blazing aar' and swept n'n
''
Thar. wa. such charm in Beauty, never could refuse
The boage or nv Welding soul the tn butte of my muse,
Nor was or III, passyo tribe to war with lips and
| eyes,
an" 'o ...;,...nS .t.s.
There was so much of witchry in blight eyes, whutoer
| their hue;
ofmscher, sparkling in the black or iurngn the blue
Might envy tInta that rivaed all its blushng dis
| close.
There was such strange attraction, in the glowing forms
| we ,vhirled
ThrO' OF the waltz, or In eotilons twirled:-
sort ofhuman orrery, with no controlling Sun,
Where gddy heads unlike the spheres wHre turned more
ways than one.
Or iu the stolen with her whose every word,
Amid the noisy reves din was rather foit than heardi
Just like the magic spirit sounds that THRU as from 'hoso
spheres,
And touch Chords within tho breast that reach not 10
Aud OIL the fascination that ted mo 10 Inc slTeeI'
Where well dressed bellies, and handles tri for prone
nadins meoti
The stroll with heF whO for the time was unto me- my
Nv chosen mariner not for lfe but for the coming ball
/
She'd tel me Sne had been lmporcd 70 lance Win humber
| 6esux' so
But had Postponed them ALL for ne' until tho evening
close,
She'd be compelled to take with these decided bores
"FweTe worse than Van' 10 hhSer on 'hese "ear
0al days,
And nights OF pleasant WALKS anu 'aNS OIL concerts oa
and PIaysi
away.
And with them all the hopes and fears OF youths exaht
day.
|
OH FEARFUL was the summons by cruel fortune given.
That broke the spell anu ealeo mo loE'h from 1hA ny
earthly hc0Veni
Ana nara 10 sever all inc oorus' my ID
strong.
|
conquered The neree agony oaue a STEM aaieH
10 eyes that once iaae Ill my gut anu al my '"'H"
tOoi
ieI as mo my ioarl hAa qu,'e Oeen rent IN
Time passed,it seemed bachelors t.te wa. not an en-
4 yiOus lot,
hard tho dear 50 TO forget s worse to be got
We met; when hadjus found out that alter ALL this life
Is but very thing, with no sweet home or wife,
| -
nave 'oa tnce H00 ioSe'.t nei as ose AT ial
tnakes' OIL oeau'iui' 10 every "nete
hsa BEEN TO me- but as the The INC OdA'
\ the flowers,
And all the mere embellishments that grace this world
ours