The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-13
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= Gaze OF GUSH.
10 the Editor Il the n. o. Bulletin :

ACksB Or GUsH.
70 the Editor IT the n. o. Bulletin:
Knowing You 70 b man Of sentiment. /
desire to submit to you case Of ..gus;, that
caused serious alarm among the friends
\ o. tho afflicted party. and may yet throw
gloom over . whole community. He was
IN good health, and, Is the decedents say, sof
sound mind and memory" 30 far as my in
foFmasi IN extenda The attack was sud-
den, the pangs severe, but not of long
duration, and his friends indulge in the hope
that his recovery may be equally rapid, and
that BY prudent treatment all seeds of the
2 disease may be so entirely eradicated that no
relapse need be feared
OF course, there was woman in it. In
this case, 50 far as could learn, it was very
imischievous lassie too. She knew he was fond
of the ladies and felt himself honored ALWAYS
by serving them, Is twas his habit to do on all
occasions, in season and out of season" as
the pious speak. He was little passe for
beau, but none were more chivalrous, or bore
@ tFuer, man,ier heart He made no secret Of
being on the shady side OF forty" and yet,
with malice aforethought, she enclosed in an
envelope some newspaper poetry on "Forty
Years" The verses gave picture of man
looking at life at forty years of age-down-
ward and backward to the green fields Of
youth. and upward and onward to the gray
hills and bleak fields of "the winter Of life I"
srIvhnu opnkc Of fhn Is tn D~r.
stence and the "September strife" between
the warning elements of spring and winter.
Il was not pleasant string to be touched
aby the woman, in whom an old bachelor had
began to feel proprietary interest in, and
u am not sure the crimson'd dyes" of my
'4nends existence we're not quite as near n
TO spring bushes as to the tints of autumn.
At all events my friend, like the immortal
Wegg. dropped into poetry, and stole the
copy from his desk. l want you to print it as
q warning to modern "Clara We're de Vere's. :"
They should be warnsd of trifling with un-
sophisticated maturity. Sin the days when
q. thair hearts are volcanic" as Poe says. I have
, mot yet learned what the result was, but we
may suppose that, like those cases where the
Irresistible comes in contact with the immov-
able, tho result was inevitable.
Yours, ICoNoCLAsT.
February ID, 1876.
To-, IN RESPONSE TO shines AT FORTY
The maid who jeers at forty years
OF amman cares and cros ses,
and o. ly fears li1e's trimming tears
When coupled with times losses;
Viii oft reient, and fain consent
To voolng SWANS at fifty;
Nor yet repen. the troth that's blent
With age-when wise and thrifty.
SO. lady, spare my frosty hair,
Nor mint at "summers rosy sheen"
Thy face so fair, thy charms so rare,
Warm summer haStes to crown thee-Queen.
With warm caress on lip and tress
Fond summer ever thrills and fluehes
Still yearns to bless, and love confess
For beauty, youth and maiden bushes!
The glow that dies, in vernal skies,
With radiant warmth the summer filings;
And, criu,son'd, lies with bluehing dyes
In breathing, pulsing, blossomings!
Such is the bloom of manh0ods noon.
And such the glow of summers passion,
Youths' perf1med hours, in vernal bowers.
Claims = Indian summers" mud compassion.
with wisdom comes autumnal suns,
As maids OF wit should well consider.
To "Iove and lose' they still should choose
II fate illssts-become So widder."
So, grave or gay, we still must play
Our parts, IN social economics,
And strut the stage, in joy or rage,
In LIES z, aud game Of histrionics.
Then don't rehearse in cruel verse
The woes Of my September strife"
But place your hand at nv command
And be my summer blossom wife.