The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1885-12-05
A Beautifu! Love Story.

s%alions OF u~nutterable joy caper over
it like young goats over a stable
roof, and thrill through it like Span
ish needles through tow linen trow
sers. AS a gosling swimmetl, with
delight in a mud.puddle, so swim |
in a sea Of glory. Visions of ecstatic
rapture, thicker than the hair of a
backing brush, and brighter than
the hucs OH a lumming birds pin,
ions, visit me in my siumlaers, aud
horne on their invisible wings, YOU
image stands before me, and reach
ont to grasp it, like an old pointer
swapping al a hEne-bot,le fly. When
| first bcl'cld yoar sanity projections
was beWiidertl, and my brain
whirled armhnd like a humble bee
under a glass tnmbIe:; my eyes
stood open like ceIlar.doors in the
country towns and | lifted my ears
to catch the silvery accents Of your
voice. My tongue ,cfased'to wag,
and in silent admiration drank in
the sweet Infection of'Ioye. as a thirs-
ny man $ yalloweth a :usnb!er of hot
shiSkey punch. Since the light of
your face fell upon my life, | some
times feel as if | could lit myself 10y
my shoes straps to the top Of church
sieeple. Day and night you are my
thoughts. When Aurora, bIu-hing
like a bride, rises from her saffron
couch when the jaybird. pipes his
%tunefui lay in the apple tree ~ the
Spring-house ; when the chanticlecr's
shriIl clarion heraids The coming
morn /; when the awakened pig
arIseth from his bed, aud gocth forth
for his morning Refreshments when
the drowsy beetle wheels his dron-
ing fight at snlky noontide. and
when the lowing cows come home at
milking time. | think of thee. Aud
like a piece of gumeIastic, my heart
seem to stretch clear across my DO
som. Your hair is like the name
of a sorrcl horse painted with gold,
and the brass slide to your immacu.
late neck-tie fills ne with unbound
ed awe. Your forehead is smoother
than an old coat, and whittier than
seventeen hundred linen. Your eyes
are glorious to behold. In their IL
quid depths | see Iegions Of little
cupids battling and fighting like co.
horts Of ants in an old army cracker.
When their fire hit me in the wo-
manly breast, it perforated my en-
tire anatomy like a load OF bird shot
would go through a rotten apple.
Your nose is from a chunck of par
ian marble, and your mouth FUCKERS
with sweetness. Nectar fingers on
your lips like honey on a bears
paw, and myriads of unaeged kisses
are there ready to fly ont OF the
parent nest and light somewhere like
bluc'birds out OF their parent nest.
Your laugh rings on my cars like
the wind harp's strain, or the blcat
of a stray lamp on the bleak hillside.
The dlmples III your cheeks are like
bowers in beds of roses, or like hol-
lows in cakes of homemade sugar.
| am dying to fly to your presence,
and to pour out the burning clio
quence Of my love as a thrifty house
vile ponrS out the hot coffee. Away
from you | am as melancholy as a
sick rat. Sometimes | can hear the
June.bug of dependency buzzing in
my ears, and feel the cold lizards OF
despair crawling down my back.
Uncouth fears like a thousand min
ners nibbling at my spirits, and my
soul is pierced through with doubts
as an old cheese is bored by skip
pers. My love is stronger for you
than the smell OF the old butter.
sweitzer kase, or the kick, of a mule.
1t is purer than the breath of a
young crow and more unselGsh than
a kittens first catterwal. AS The
son-bird hungers for the light of dav,
the cautious mouse for the fresh
bacon i'll the trap, as a lean pup
bankers after new milk, so | long
for thee. You are fairer than a
specklcd pullet, sweeter than a Yam
kec doughnut fixed in sorghum mo.
%lasses; brighter than the top knot
plumage on the head of a Muscovia
duck. Your are candy kisses, rails
ems, pound-cake, and sweetened
toddy, altogether. If these few re-
marks will enable you to see the
inside of my soul, and me to win
your affections, | shall be as happy
as a woodpecker in a cherry tree, or
a stage-horse in a green pasture. If
you can not reciprocatc my thrilling
passion, | will feel terrible bad, aud
| will pine away like a poisoned bed
bug, and fall away from the flourish.