Smyrna times., 1883-07-25
LitslEtn Coke T.rIas CIR Fitgpspl!a,
CHAPTER II.
BY THE BALD OF TOWER HAI

CHAPTER II.
q Not to mention quantity kept from the rest
Sufficient to fill the largest sized chest.
Which did not appear on the ships manifest,
But for which the ladies themselves manifested
Such particular interest that they invested
Their own proper persons in layers and rows
Ofmuslins, embroideries, worked underclothes,
Gloves, handkerehiefs, scaris, and such triies as
these;
Then, wrapped in great shawls like Circassian
beauties,
Gave good by to the ships and go-by to the duties"
Now this may be true and it may be sham;
But, if the fair maiden thus cheated poor SAM"
What value the beauty, the wealth, or the station
of one, who intent ON large importation,
Thus swindled her uncle, the head of the nation?
But what said the lawyer who courted the maid?
He knowing the fact-was the secret betrayed?
Did the heart in his bosom Indignantly swell?
Did he bid the fair smuggler forever farewell?
All, no! he but smiled on her brazen eifrontery,
In lodging the duties she owed to her country;
Believing, no doubt, that in saving the pelf,
She was false to her country, but true to herself
That these were hisfeelngs the sequel will prove,
To marry the maid was his very next move,
And asking her hand having won her consent,
He thus to his pride and his feelings gave vent:
81 should mention just here that out of Miss
Two hundred and fifty or sixty adorers,
| had Just been selected as he who should throw
The rest in the shade, by the gracious bestowal
On myself, after twenty or thirty reectiOnS
OF those fossil remains which she called her af
And that rather decayed, but-well known work
OF art
Which Miss Clara persisted in calling her heart
So we were engaged. Our troih has been plight
Not by moonbeams by sunbeam, by fountain, or
grove,
But in front parlor most brilliantly lighted,
Beneath the gas fixtures, We whispered our love"
The adage is old that there's many slip
In the course of true love- 'twixt the cup and the
And the chalice of bliss that our lover had found
By word, reasonly spoken, he dashed to the
| His bright aspirations his castles in air,
| We're shrouded forever in clouds of despair.
1t seems Miss Clara was asked to ball,
| A very select and recherche affair,
| And she, in the fashions the leader of ALL
In the pride OF her beauty, must surely lie there.
But alack and alas Notwithstanding the cargo,
| From Paris imported per good steamer Ohio:
| Notwithstanding the thousands and thousand of
dollars,
Invested in satins, silks, velvet and collars;
| The maiden III tears aud almost i'll despair,
Could not go to the ball for she'd nothing TO
| Her lover suggested Il Silken brOcade,
| Pink, purple and lilac, and many shade:
| A satin, velvet, a rich grenadine
| III which, at the bail ROOM of fashion the queen
! She might, with her raiment and grades allied,
! Bring her foes to her feet, and her beaux to her
| side,
| Of ladies the envy of lovers the pride
In vain were his pleadings, with logic and skill,
| Her reason was dead and had left her viii
| And the will in expression, had made her the heir
| OF that quarter of Syllables Nothing to wear"
The lover insisted; her vows she forgot
| And called him monster, u base H0ItentQt.
| The foot that was clOven no longer cOncealing
| He was fairly exposed rs man without feeling,
She had heard full enough, and she wished for
no more.
| lie saw that it might not be prudent to linger,
| And SeiZng his beaver, he made for the door,
| To which she was pointing her gem-lighted finger
| And stopping a moment, to breathe on the Square
Heard a cry of distress =" | have nothing to wear.
/ The maiden was right she was naked indeed,
| With the veSture of innocence bartered away;
| Mid the pOmp of the world, she was feeling the
| need
| OF the mantel of faith on her shoulders to lay
| The faith that in troubles and trials below.
| When hopes that we cherished arc sundered and
| riven,
Will point from the depths of our sorrow and woe
| TO the home of the blessed, in the mansions O
| heaven.
| The faith, that in lrOrks with will and a way,
| Lifts up the unfortunate. stricken by sorrow;
Dispell:ng the clouds from the sky of to-day,
| For the sunrise of hope ON the coming tO-ROrrO,r
| A faith such as this-with a hand aud a heart
The troubles and burdens of others to share
| Was Clara FitzpOOdle 80 parcel or part,
| And truly she uttered " I've nothing to wear"
| ITO be continued
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| lowest prices i'll Clothing, with choice assert
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