Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-09
ALBUM VERSES.

Some Sentiments, Wise and Otherwise,
Written in Young Ladies' Autograph
Albums.
A New York Star man has had ac-
cess to specimen rhymes from over
1000 albums. He made the following
selections for his paper.
The following was written in a
young lady's album by one of her
gentlemen friends:
dip my psn into the ink
And grasp your album tight;
But for my life l cannot think
One single word to writs.
A good wish is expressed in bad
rhyme thus:
In the storms of life,
When you need an umbrella,
May you have 10 uphold it
A handsome yo1ng fellow.
This was written in young lady's
album:
May beauty and truth
Keep you in youth;
Green tea en / sage
Preserve your old age.
Some one with a funny name writes:
Some peope can be very funny,
ne er could be so;
So I'll Just insc7iNe my name
It's the funn est thing know.
Mr. Simpleton inscribes the follow
ing tribute to a lady friend:
Fee simple and simple fee,
And all the fees entail,
Are 10 hing when compared TO thee,
Thou best of fees-fe-male.
One Of the pages in an elegantly
bound album was spoiled with:
Accept my valued friendship,
And roll it up in cotton;
And think it not illusion
Because so easily gotten.
A sly joker makes the "laugh :"
rhyme with autograph thus:
If yo1 wish to laugh,
Glance at my autcgrlph
When on this page yo1 chance to look,
Think of me and close the book.
A young lady, who had evidently
gained knowledge from experience,
wrote:
Mans love is like Scotch snuff
You take pinch and that's enough.
Profit by this sage advice,
When you fall in love, think twice.
A doggerel writer indites the fol-
lowing:
Long may you live,
Happy may you be
When you get married
Come and see me.
And this follows on another page in
the same album:
May you be happy
Each cay of your life;
Get a cd husband
And MAKE good wife.
An old and oft-used rhyme for a
lady's album runs:
As sure as comes your wedding day,
broom to you Ill send
In sunshine. use tie brushy part,
In storm, the other end.
An unmarried lady might take the
following as informing her when she
should-be sal:
Nay your che ks retain IL cir dimples,
May yo1r heart be jrst as gay,
Until fome manly voice sh I'll whisper:
Iearest, will you name the day"
In an album belonging to an i'll
tempered person was written:
What's the rse of always fretting
At the tria is we shall find
Ever stregn along our pathway?
Travel on and re 7er mind.
A "fool" was foolish enough to
write:
The word Is full of fools,
And he who would none view
Must shut himself il a cave
And break his mirror, too.
A good sentiment, clothed in faulty
metre, is:
Thatevery kindly wish and thought
Byfr.ends xpressed within these pages,
Be oars and trials c mmon to US all
May cross your Path by easy stages"
A hungry young fellow writes
Remember me when far away,
And only, ,Ealf awake;
Remember me on your wedding day,
An1 send slice of cake.
"Mr. Smith writes:
And if no dearer I can be
Rene nj er SIN tn when this you see.
AS if anybody could forget Smith. .
The lady to whom the following was
addressed was undoubtedly amused:
Wien tske in an b m to write,
feel quite inclined to refuse
For hat shoald / ha TO indite
That would young lady amuse?
Not wit, for | have none of that,
Nor romance-my fancy Is tame;
And conn Ii nents so md so fiat,
I'm forced towrite merely my name.
One of the best specimens in the col
lection is the following:
We may write our names in albums;
We NAV trace the n in the sand;
We may chisel them in marble
With firm and ski full hand;
But the pages socn are sulhed,
Sooa each nan VIII fade away.
Every monument will crumble,
Like all esr hly hopes, decay.
But, dear friend, there is an album,
Full of leaves of sunny white,
Where no name is ezer tarnjshed,
Eut forever psre and br ght.
In that Book of L fe, Gods Album,
May yo1r name be p nned with care;
And NAV all who kere MAJ write
Have their names forever there
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