English poem
LINES WROTE IN SCHOOL WHILST THROWIN’ GLANCES AT SUSAN SANDERSON
by Nixon Waterman (1859–1944)
"Oh, what is love?" the poet asks. I guess I'dst better tell him. When a girl's cheeks seem As fascinatin' to you as ice-cream, And though snub-nosed and freckled, more or less, She's still the phantom of pure loveliness That ever and anon athwart your dream Comes stealin', whilst you scheme and scheme and scheme To be where she is, thou 'rt in love! Oh, yes!
When you keep thinkin' how you'dst squeeze her hand If sometime thou couldst be her little glove, And if thou feelst that thou wouldst like to stand, With only just the frosty stars above, In some big snowdrift 'neath her window and Stay there forever, then thou art in love!
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