The Saint Paul globe., 1900-09-09
LOVE VERSES.
They Are highly Interesting Testi-
mony In Breach of Promise Suits.


They Are Highly Interesting Tesfi-
mony In Breach Of Promise Suits.
Sometimes verses which We're written
for only cne sweet pair of eyes are drag
ged to light in the unsympathetic at
mosphere of court of law, and are read
amid roars of laughter. One poetic
swain who in letters read IN d recent
breach of promise case, said that he
was well up in poetry and Verscs,'
was inspired to this elevated Ditch:
Will you be my hoilyhock?
VIII you be my panSy2
VIII You let me kiss those
Tulips just beneath your nose?
After such picturesque avowal of his
desiie it was scarcely necessary for him
to declare:
I'm in love, as you may be;
l love but one, and you are she.
This lover however, was as ardent an
apostle of patience as Of love, for in
another letter he adiured his fancee:
Q wait, meekly wait!
Meekly wait and murmur not.
But she grew tired of waiting, and was
awarded solatium of 1915 for such pa
tience as she had already displayed.
One lover, whose preference for Scot
years ago, wrote:
English maids are sweet as roses,
Irish maidens are fair to see,
But eai tn hides no lovelier maid ms
Than the Scotch-so Scotch for ms!
Another lover. whose letters were read
before a Liverpool jury, suggests an in
teresting picture of moonlight woolng:
The moon, they says wicked ell,
Both mISchieVous and Jolly.
Who poses as the lovers friend
And W+nkS at all their folly
So when she looked en- Won and me
Twas but a case of Luna see.
The following verses taken from the let
ters CT a lover whose courtship of Miss
Annie H was reviewed at the Under
s1eriff's court in London a short time
! ago, speak for themselves:
| My darling's wicked tricks and prarks
/ cannot, If l would, restrain,
For she's more effervescent far
Than any magnum Of champagne.
But If a maid who looks defnure
| Can be so very disSipated
| What Will she be, Id like to know,
When she is really Annie-mated
In a Midland breach of promise action
Drake vs. -, many gems of humor-
/ Gus verse were produced for the inspec-
ton and amusement of the court Among
them were the following graceful fancy:
In matrimony some folks say
There is but little luck;
But you at least, my darling Maud,
a richer vein have struck;
/ For even when you're Mrs Drake
You'll be "a little duck"
Alas! this tempting prospect was never
! to be realized; and the lady received $, ,250
as compensation for her disappointment
III having to forcgo the role OF little
duck.
| ere ic A.
/ from the letters of Il Leeds lover, who
| Moed a girl called Daisy but omitted to
| wed her:
Some love the rose and some the pink,
Some are for lilies crazy;
| But sWeeter are than pink or rose
The tulips of my Daisy.
| Tulips are most invaluable flowers for
| poetic swains and tulip salve'' is useful;
/ no enterprising lover can afford to ignore
/ either. Cupid unhappiIy does not lend
| himself to verse, for he only rhymes with
stupid.
| Many bachelor who is weary Of long,
| lonely years spent in lodgings will APP
prove. of the following sentiment address
! cd by Manchester lover to mis- fiancc,
Miss Gould:
am like lucky miner
Who has turned UP wealth untold:
| For I'm. going to leave my ''diggings'
| Now that I've secured my Gould
But. alas! the lady got change" for
god; and properly the lover. instead of
securing gold. had to part with some.
| Another tickle swain, against whom a
Miss Lily White obtained substantial
damages not long ago, was at one time
| very proud of his conquest. as the fol-
lowing lines testify:
| Although I may not be a Catch
m still cricketer of might;
l Or else now could I make q m
With you, my darling Lily White?"
Perhaps the most amusing and am
bilious of these amorous verses Is the
| following, addressed by an analysis to
his f1ancee who bore the rather prosafc
| Christian names "Anne Eliza
| When man on wedding bent
His wife should be his aggrandizer;
And this will be your fate, my dear.
For you will be my "Analyzer.'