Smyrna times., 1883-07-11
Lit.llGtn Coke Verses Clare FiEgpasdh
BY THE BAED OF TOWER HALL.
CHAPTER II

CHAPTER II.
Not to mention a quantity kept from the rest,
Sufficient to fill the largest sized chest.
Which did not appear on the ships manifest
Such particular interest that they invested
Their own proper persons In layers and rows
OF muslins, embroideries worked underclOthes,
Gloves, handkerchiefs, searfs, and such tribes 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 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 eOurted 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 effrontery,
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 his feelings 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
a. should mention just here that out of Miss
Two hundred and fifty or sixty adorers,
l 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-
fectionS.'
And that rather decayed but-wen known work
of art
Which Miss Clara persisted in calling her heart
So we were engaged Our troth has been plight
Not by moonbeams, by sunbeam, by fountain or
But in a front parlor, most brilliantly lighted,
Beneath the gas fixtures, we whispered our love"
The adage is old that there's many a 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 IL ball,
very select and recherche affair,
And she, in the fashions the leader fall,
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
Invested in satns, silks, velvet and collars;
The maiden in tears and almost in despair,
Could not go to the ball, for she'd nothing to wear.
Her lover suggested Eilken brocade,
Pink, purple and lilac, and many shade:
satin, velvet rich grenadine
In 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,
Ofladies the envy, of lovers the pride
In vain were his pleadings with logic and SKILL
Her reason was dead, and had left her will
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, n base HOttentOt
The foot that was cloven 10 longer cOncealing,
He was fairly exposed as a 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 SeiZing 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, II 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 are sundered and
rven,
Will point from the depths of our sorrow and woe
To the home of the blessed, in the mansions of
heaven.
The faith, that in lCOrks with will and a way,
Lifts up the unfortunate stricken by sorrow
Dispell!ng the clouds from the sky of today
For the sunrise of hope on the coming tO-mOTOiC.
\ faith such as thiS-with hand and a heart
The troubles and burdens of others to share
Was Clara FitzpOOdle no parcel or part
And truly she uttered " I've nothing to wear
CIO be continued
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