The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-17
Poetic Answers.

A form SO fair, that like the air
'IYs less of earth than heaven.
-E. Z. Pinkney.
He is so full of pleasant anecdote,
So rich, 80 gay, SO poignant in his wit :
Time vanishes before him as he speaks,
And ruddy morning through the lattice peeps.
Joanna Baltic.
WHAT DO YoU LIKE BEST.
That all-soltening, overpowering knell,
The tocsin of the soul-the dinner bell.
byron.
A slight Irritation by the light of a chandelier
With music to play in the pauses
And nobody very near. willis.
Gold Gold Gold Gold
Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
Give me kisses all is waste save the luxury OF
the taste,
And for distinguishes live only when we take
or give,
Kiss me, then,
Every momcnt-and again.
WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE MOST!
OF every bore,
II to the list you add score,
Are not SO bad, upon my lie,
AS that one scourge, scolding vile.
-Berni.
Drunkenness, whose vile incontinence
Take both away, the reason and the sense,
1t browns the better parts, making the name
ro foes n laughter, to friends shame.
Randolph
Coarse speech, bad grainmia, swearing,
Drinking vice. Holmes.
Homemade physic that sickens the sick,
Thick for thin and thin for thick,
Hood.
WHAT Is YOUR HIGHEST AMBITION!
To go to church to-day,
To look devout and seem to pray,
And ere to-morrow's sun goes down
BE dealing sander through the town.
Mrs. Sigourney.
To dress rs the mobiles dress,
In cloth of silver and gold,
With silk and satin and costly turs
In many an ample fold.
-Hooi.
Oh, grant me, Heaven, middle state,
Neither too humble nor too great,
More than enough for natures ends,
With something LETT to treat my friends.
-Mallet.
Oh, gle me the lass that hae acres Of charms
Oh, gle me lass wi the weel stockit farm
Burns.
Then let me get money us bees lay up honey
I'll build new hives and store each cell,
The sight of my treasure will yield me great
pleasure,
Ill count it, and chink it, and jingle it well
DR. Franklin.
WHAT is YOUR FAvoRITE FLOWER?
Magnificent calla in mantle Of milk.
Mrs. Sigourney.
The chaste camela's pure and spotless bloom
That boasts no fragrance and conceals nj
thorn.
William Roscos.
And faith that thousand ills can brave
Speaks in thy blue leaves, forget me not
-Percival.
Rose, thou art the sweetest flower.
Burns.
WHO is YOUR INTENDED
A perfect woman nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort and command,
And yet a spirit still and bright,
With something of an angels light.
Wordsworth.
A Judge, man SO learned
So full OF equity, so noble-envy
Itself cannot accuse, or malice vitiate.
Chapman and Shirley.
A hungry, lean-faced villain,
A mere anatomy, mountebank,
A thread bare juggler, and fortune-teller,
A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretcl
Shakespeare.
A rosebud set with willful thorns
90 AS sweet as English air can make her.
-Tennyson.
WHAT is THE CHARACTER OF YOUR INTENDED
She takes the most delight
In music, instruments and poetry.
, Shakespeare.
The solemn fop, significant and bulge,
A fool with judges, and among fools iudg
-Cowper.
She has read her fathers well-hlled libral
with profit,
And can talk charmingly: she can sing
And play, too, passably, and dance with spir
She is knowing-in in all needle-work;
And shines in kitchen as well as parlor.
j, N. Barker.
He is a scholar, and ripe and good one,
Exceedingly wise, fair spoken and persuadir
Shakespeare
WHAT is YOUR DESTINY?
Never wedding never wooing,
Still lovelorn heart pursuing.
Campbell
10 be man OF rank and of capacious so
To riches have, and fame beyond desire
And heir to fiattery, to titles born,
And reputation and luxurious life.
-Ae'' Robert Pollock
Single as a stray glove, minus its mate
Fanny Kemble
WHERE WILL YOUR HOME BE?
Where beasts with man divided empire ella