Smyrna times., 1883-06-27
LAslstsa Coke Verses Clara Fisspaaah.
BY THE BALI D OF TOWER HALL.
CHATTER IL.


:" 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
Ot muslins, embrOideries, worked underclotheS,
these;
Then, wrapped in great shawls, like Circassan
beauties,
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
Ot 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
lie knowing the fact-was the secret betrayed?
Did the heart in his bosom Indignantly swell?
Did he bid the fair smuggler forever farewell?
An, no! he but smiled on her brazen etfrontery,
In dOdging the duties she owed to her country;
Believing, no doubt. that in saving the pelf
III, She was false to her country but true to herself
That these his feelings the SEQUEL will prOye
/ To marry the maid was his very next move
And asking her hand having won her consent
/ lie thus to his pride and his feelings gave vent:
Il should mention just here that out Of Miss
Claras
Two hundred and fifty or sixty adorers
had Just been selected as he who should throw
The rest in the shade, by the gracious bcstowol
On myself, after twenty or thirty rcjectiOns,
OF those fossil remains which She called her ar
foctonS'
And that rather decayed, but-well- known work
Which Miss Clara persisted in calling her heart
so we were engaged. Our troth has been plight
ed:
Not by moonbcamS, by sunbeam by fountain or
But in a front paror. 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, 'twXt the cup and the
lip"
By word reaSonly spoken, he dashed to the
ground;
His bright aspirations his castles in air,
Nor Nl,rsrr .is..1E E.r. t.g1.r D
1t seems Miss Clara was asked To a ball,
I very select and recherche affair.
And She, in the fashions the leader all,
In the pride Of her beauty. must surely be there
But aack! and alas, notwithstanding the cargo
From Paris imported per good steamer Ohio;
NotwihStanding the thousands and thousand of
Invested in >atinS, silks, velvet and collars:
inc, ne maiden M tears and almost in despair,
Could not go to the ball. for she'd nothing To wear
Her lover suggested a Siken brOcRde,
Pink, purple and lilac, and many shade;
a satin, velvet, a rich grenadine
In which, at the bail room. of fashion the queen
She might, with her raiment and grades allied.
side,
Ofladies the envy of lovers the pride
In vain were his pleadngS. with logic and skin.
Her reason was dead, and had left her will
And the will in expression had made her the heir
VI that quarter OF syllables Nothing to wear.
The lover lnSlsted her vows she forgot
And called him monster, a base HOttentnt.
The foot that was cloven no longer cOncealing.
tie was fairly exposed as a man without feeling.
She had heard full enough, and She wished for
, no more.
He saw that it might not be prudent to linger
And Sezing his beaver, he made for the door
TO which she was pointing her gem-lighted finger
And stopping moment, to breathe on the Square
Heard u cry of distress, Il have nothing to wear
The maiden was right; she was naked indeed
With the vesture of finnocence bartered away;
Mid the pOmp of the world, she was feeling tie
need
OF the mantel of faith on her shoulders to lay,
The faith that in troubles and trials below
When hopes that we cherished are sundered and
riven,
Will point from the depths of our sorrow and woo
To the home of the blessed, in the mansions o.
heaven.
q The faith, that in trOrks with will and a way,
Lifts up the unfortunate. stricken by sorrow;
Dispell;ng the clouds from the sky of tO-ddy
For the sunrise of hope on the coming Tomorrow
A faith such as this-with hand and heart
The troubles and burdens of others to share
. Was Clara FitzpOOdle no parcel or part
} And truly she uttered, q" I've nothing to wear
TO be cOntinued1
For RELIABLE QUALITIES latest styles an,
lowest prices in Clothing, with a choice assert
ment to select from, there is place equal to th
: great Clothing House of
GARlTEE, MASTEN & ALLEN
TOWER HALL, may 2I-l
Nos sis and 500 Market Street. Philadelphia.