Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1883-06-30
LITTLETON COKE VERSUS CLARA
FITZPOODa1E.
Y THE BARD OF TOWER HALL
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Not to mention quantity kept from the rest,
Sufficient to fill the largest sized chest
But for which the ladies themselves manifested
Such particular interest that they invested
Tn ir own proper persons in ayers and rows
OF muslins, embrofderies, worded underclothes,
Glove handkerchefs scarf and such rihes as these;
Then, wrapped in great shaws, like Circassian beau
Gave good by to the ships and go.by to the duties"
Now this may be true, and it may be a sham
But if the fair maiden thus cheated poor Sam"
What value the beauty, the wealth. or the station
of one. who intent on a 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 eff ontery,
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.
TO marry the maid was his very next move
And b asking her d 6ayng SGn her
II should mention Just here that out of Miss Claras
Two hundred and fifty or sixty adorers,
l had just been selected as he who should throw all
The rest in the shade, by the gracious oestoWal
OF those fossil remains which she called her afiec
And that rather decayed but weknown work Of art
So we were engaged Our troth has been plighted;
Not by moonbeans, sunbeam, fountain, or grove,
Beneath the gas fixtures, we whispered our love-
The adage is old that there's many slip.
And the chaice of bliss that our lover had found,
By a work, rashly spoken, he dashed to the ground
We're sRronded forever in clouds OF despair.
It seems Miss Clara was ask ed 70 ball, 4.
very select and recherche affalr,
And she, in the fashions the leader OF all,
In the pride of her beauty, must surely be there,
From Paris imported per good steamer Ohio;
Notwithstanding the thousands and thousand Of dol
Invested In satns, Silks velvet ana collaIs' l'ars
The maiden in tears and most IN wear
Her lover suggested a silken brocade,
Pink, purple and lilac and many shade;
A satin, velvet, a rich grenadine
In a
She might with her raiment and graces allied,
Bring her foes her feet and her beaux TO her SIDE
In Vain were ERE his pieadings, with logic and skin,
Her reason was dead, and had LETT her VIII -,
dnd she % III 70
The lover insisted; her vows she forgot,
And called MN m0nsrer , oase ncnnceaiing
He was fairly exposed man without feeling:
She had heard full enough and s 3; %1sneu no
And selling his beaver, he made for the door,
To which she was pointing her gem-lignted nnger,
Heard cry of distress, II have nothing 10 wear,
The maiden was right: she was naked indeed.
With the vestnre of innocence bRrtered away
Mid the pomp of the world she was feeling the need
ofthe mantle of faith on her shoulders 70 lay
The faith that in troubles and trials below.
When hopes we cherished are sunderad and riven,
Will point from the depths Of our sorrow ana woe
The faith that in ioorks with will and way,
Lifts up the unfortunate, stricken by sorrow
For the sanrise Of hope on the coming t1,nsororao
A faith such as ths-with hand and a heart
The troubles and burdens of others 10 snare
Was Clara Fitzpoodle no parcel or part,
And truly she uttered i've nothing TO wear
(7b be continued.)
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