The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-06-14
TELEMAcHUs VERSUS MENTOR,

Don't mind me, beg You. Old fellow. III DO
very Well here alone, !.
You must not be kept from yonr herman
because I've dropped in like stone; l,
Leave All ceremony behind YOU, leave All
Thought Of aught but yourself.
And leave, II YOU like, the Madeira. and a doz-
en- cigars on the shell.
As for me, you will say 20 our hostess ell
/ scarcely need give you cue.
Chant my praise' All will list 90 Apollo.
though Mercury pipe TO a few;
say just what you please. my dear boy.
there's more eloquence hes in youths
rash
under this grizzled mustache.
Go, don the dress-coat Of our tyrant--youth's
panoplied armor for fight
And tie the white neckcluth that rumples.
like pleasure, and lasts but night.
And pray the Nine Gods TO avert you what
time the Three Sisters shall frown.
And you'll lose your high comedy figure, and
sit more at ease in your gown.
He's OF There's his foot on the staircase.
BY love. what bounds Really now
Did ever leap like this springaid, with
Loves chaplet greer, on my brow
Was such an ASST No, fancy. Indeed, l
remember quite plain:
A gravity mixed with my transports, cheer
fulness softened my pain.
He's gonei There's the slam OF his cab door.
There's the clatter Of hoofs and the
And while the light toe he is triprkng, in this
armchair I'll tilt mp my heels.
He's gone, and for whats For tremor from
u waist like a teetofum spun.
For rose bud that's crImDled by many be-
fore IL Is gathered by one.
Is there naught in the halo Of youth but the
glow Of passionate race
Midst the cheers and applause of a crowd
10 the goal Of beautiful face
A race that Is not TO the swift, prize that no
But is won by some Iaineanf youth who shall
simply walk over the course.
Poor how, shall shock his conceity when
he talks OF her cheeks loneliness,
Shall say twas the air Of the room, and " as
due 70 carbonic excesss
That when waitzing she dropped on his
breast. and the veins Of her eyelids grew
Twas osygen's absence she felt, but never
the presence OF hims
Shall tell him First Love Is fraud, weak.
ling that's strangled In birth,
Recalled with peffunctOry tears, but lost In
unsanctified mirthS
or shall bid him believe in all womankind's
charm, and forget
In the light ringing laugh Of the world the
mathematics gay castinet!
shah tear out leaf from my heart. from
that book that forever il shut
On the pasts Shall speak Of my first love
Apgusta-my Lalage? But
1 forget. was IL really AugustaY No Twas
Lucyi No. Mary No. Dit
Never mind. they were all first, and faithlese.
and yet-pye forgotten Just why
No, no. Let him dream on and ever. Alas I
he will waken too soon;
And 10 doesn't look well for October TO al
ways be preaching at June.
Poor boyi All his fond foolish trophies pin
ned yonder-a bow, from her hair.
A few biiisfs- doslr. Invitations. and-what's
thiss Ny name III declare.
Humphi "You'n come, for I've got you a
prize-wfth beauty and money no end !;
You know her. think twas on d6 she once
was engaged 10 your friend,
But she says that's all over" All, Is IT. Sweet
Etheli Incompatible maid,
Or-what II the thing were q trickf-this let
ter so freely displayed
NY opportune presencei Noi nonscnse
Will nobody answer the bell5
Call a cab Half past ten! Not too late Oh,
Ethel. Why don't you gog Wellf
Master said you would wait" Hang your
masteri Have ! ever message 20
Yes. tell him I've gone 70 the German TO
dance with the friend OF his friend.
-Bref Harfe, IN HarPers for June