The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-03-19
Written for the Comet.
THE KISSING.
''CLINTON.'' -

"cLINTON."
I.
Once upon midnight dreary,
Ere December's winds grew weary,
was sitting on sofa ....
With my girl behind the door;
Vainly there had been trying
With entreaties and with signing
And my soul was almost dying
For the kiss did implore;
o to kiss that pretty creature J.
"Just one Kiss" did implore,
But replied she-"Ask no more"
H.
All distinctly remembers,
All that night in bleak December,
While each separate, dying embcr
Wrought its faint ghost on the floor,
How tried tiH near the morrow,
How | tried, in vain, TO borrow
Just one smack-but oh sorrow,
Sorrow as | think it o'er---"
"Just one little kiss, my darling
This asked her DER and DER
But, replied shc--"Ask no more"
Here the dog-gone, quick, uncertain
'Rustling of window curtain
Thrilled me-iilled me with paternal
Terror never felt before
So that now, to still the beating
OF my heart, stood repeating,
otis some stranger, cold, ontreating
Entrance-but he's missed the door,
Some poor stranger, cold, entreating
Entrance-but he's missed the door,
That It is, and nothing more"
There awhile stood to listen,
And thought l saw eyes glistcn,
Thought saw the sold mans" frownings
Thro' the window blinds to pour;
And the fact is, was frightened,
When all suddenly it lightened,
And the window by it frightened,
While light fell Gross the floor
For tho't it was a lantern ....
Throwing light across the floor
But twas lightning, nothing more.
But now really was "skeered up"
And my brain was slightly stirred up
Dreamings of that "old-man's" anger
Filled me then as ne'er before
For oft had been forbidden,
by her father, been forbidden,
Ever to be found there hidden
With that girl behind that door,
And surely thought he had caught me
Try'n' to kiss her hind the door
But twas lightning, nothing more.
SO back to the sofa turning,
All my soul within me burning p
soon again took 10 begging
For the boon I'd asked before:
"Surely," said /, "surcly there can
BE no serious evil lurkin'
In one kis---oll, tell me where can
You find soul to say mo morc;'
When you know ii makes my heart ache,
Why then tell me, ASK no more y"
Then she whispered, ,"close the DOOR"
VII.
All! alas I should have shut II
When the maiden told me, but 1t
Never happened to my mind, then,
What might happen thro' the door
For that beautious girl beguiling
All my fancy into smiling,
began straightway to plling
Stranger prayers than e'cr before
There upon the sofa prayed
For the boon I'd begged before,
Then fell knccling to the floor.
There knelt engaged in praying,
All my love to her betraying,
As whispered words of pleading
And my soul did out pour:
"Only once" lowly uttered,
Ana my big heart, how it fluttered,"
When she scarcely, more than muttered,
''0nly once, then ask no more
Aud she bended t'wards me saying
"Only once, then ask no more"--
Then we kissed behind the door.
TX.
Whoop ye gods and fiends Of evil
May never see the devil,
IL did not feel that minute
Nettles hot that made me roar
had knelt TO kiss a maiden,
And my soul was in an Alden,
When my back was sudden laden /
With whip-lashes by the score
And my soul recoiled within me
AT whip-lashes, by the score |,
All for kissing hind the door.
hut that whip was sign Of parting
And I quickly set to starting
With no hat, in double time, too,
Out the portals OF that door.
had blue stripes as token II
OF that anger never spoken:
And sometimes there is broken,
Funny itching as OF yore
That creeps o'er my back and shoulders, !
As I think I've felt Of yore-
Felt while kissing that door. IL
often, when Pm sitting lonely, |,
with ne comp'ny, cigar only, II
do rue tn unlucky moment
4 By the sofa ON the floor; y.
For feel am the master lt
Df those lashes that fell fast, sh,
Faster, with a sad disaster.
Till dashed without that door; IL
Bot I swear IN kiss no other,
Until have closed the door In
Oh, no, never, nevermore