The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1882-07-04
A Model Love Letter.


DEAE ELLA:-Every time | think
of you my heart flops up aud down
like chuYn dasher ; sensations OF Nh
utterable joy caper over it like young
goats oyer stable roof, and thrill
through it like Spanish needles
through a pair of tow linen trousers /;
as gosllng swimiBe,b ~ mud pud.
die so swim in sea OF glory. Wis
ions Of ecstatic rapture, tinker than
the hairs OF backing brush, and
brighter than the hucs of a bumming
birds pinions, visit me in my slum-
bers, and, borne on their invisible
wings, Your image stands before me,
and reach out to grasp it like a
pointer swapping at a blue bottle fly.
When first beheld your angelic per-
fections was bewitlered, aud my
brain whirled around like humble
bee nnder a glass tuipbier, my eyes
stood open like cellar doors in a
country town, and l lifted up my ears
to catch the silyery accents OF your
voice. My tongue refused to wag,
and In silent admiration | drank in
The sweet infection oflove as thirsty
man swallowth a tumbler OF hot
whisky punch. Since the light Of
your face fell upon my lite, some
times feel as ii could lit myself up
by my suspenders to tho top of the
church stccple and pull tlie bell rope
for Sunday school. Day and night
you are in my thoughts; when
Aurora, blushing like II BRIDE, rises
IRON her satiroll-colored clouds, when
the jay bird pipes his llneful lay in
the apple tree by the spring house !;
when the chandeliers shrill clarion
heralds the coming morn; when tie
awakening pig arises from his tod
and grunletli aud goeth forth for his
refreshments when the dr0wsy bee
tie wheels its droning flight at sultry
-no0ntide, and when the lowing herd
comes home at milking time, think
OF thee, aud like piece OF gum-elas-
tic my heart seems stretched clear
acr0ss my bosom. Your hair ia like
the name OF my sorreI horse, pow
dered with gold, and tho brass pins
skewcred through your waterfall fill
me with unutlerable awe. Your
forehead is smoother than the elbow
of an old coat. Your eyes are glori-
GUS to contemplate; in their liquid
depths | behold lugions OF iitile Gu
pids bathing like u cohort Of ants In
an old army oflcrackers. When thy
head lays pressed against my manly
breast the fires Of your eyes penetrate
my whole anatomy as load OF bird
shot goes through an old rotten ap-
pie. Your nose is as perfect as il
carved from n chunk of Parian mar.
BILE, ana your mouth is puckered with
sweetness. Nectar fingers on your
lips like honey on bears paw, and
myriads of unfedged kisses are there,
ready to fly out and light somewh here,
like blue-birds out OF their parents
nest. Your laugh rings IN my ears
like the music OF harp strings, or the
bleat of a stray lamb on a bleak hill
side the dimples OH your cheeks are
like bowers in bed OF roses. or the
hollo ows in cakes OF home made sugar.
| am diving TO fly 10 thy presence and
pour out the burning eloquence oI
my love as a thrifty housewife pours
out hot coffee. Away from you
am as melancholy as sick rat.
Sometimes can hear the June bugs
OF despondency buzzing in my ears,
and-I feel the cold lizards of despair
crawling down my back. Uncoutll
fears, like thousand minnows, nib
BILE at my spirits. and my soul Is
pierced with doubts like an old cheeso
bored with shippers. My love for
YOU is stronger than the smell OF
patent butter or the kick OF Young
cow, and more selfish than a Kittens
first catswaul. As a song bird han.
kers for the light OF the day, the eau.
tious mouse after piece of bacon In
the trap, as q weaned pup longs for
new milk, SO long for thee. You
are fairer than speckled pullet
sweeier than yankee doughnui
fried In sorghum molasses; brighter
than the topknot plumage on n Mus
covy duck. You are candy, kisses,
raisins, poundcake and sweeiene.l
toddy all together. Aud If these few
lines will enable you 10 see the inside
of my soul. and assist Inc In winning
your affections, shall be as happy
as woodpecker on cherry tree, OF
a stage horse in green pasture. II
you cannot reciprocate my soul mas
tering passion, will pine away like
poisoned bed hug and iall away
from the fiourishing vine OF life an
untime.y branch. And in the coming
years, when the shadows grow from
the hills and the philosophical frog
sings his cheerful evening hymns
you, happy in another's love, cal
como aud shed tear and catch ,
cold upon The last resting place of
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