Sum marry in haste, and then set down and think it careful over.
Sum think it over careful fust, and then set down and marry.
Both ways are right, if they hit the mark.
Sum marry rakes tew convert them. This iz a little risky, and takes a
smart missionary to do it.
Sum marry coquetts. This iz like buying a poor farm, heavily
mortgaged, and working the ballance ov yure days tew clear oph the
mortgages.
THE ROMANCE OF CARRIGCLEENA.
BY HERCULES ELLIS.
"Oh! wizard, to thine aid I fly,
With weary feet, and bosom aching;
And if thou spurn my prayer, I die;
For oh! my heart! my heart! is breaking:
Oh! tell me where my Gerald's gone--
My loved, my beautiful, my own;
And, though in farthest lands he be;
To my true lover's side I'll flee."
"Daughter," the aged wizard said,
"For what cause hath thy Gerald parted?
I cannot lend my mystic aid,
Except to lovers, faithful hearted;
My magic wand would lose its might--
I could not read my spells aright--
All skill would from my soul depart,
If I should aid the false in heart."
"Oh! father, my fond heart was true,"
Cried Ellen, "to my Gerald ever;
No change its stream of love e'er knew,
Save that it deepened like yon river:
True, as the rose to summer sun,
That droops, when its loved lord is gone,
And sheds its bloom, from day to day,
And fades, and pines, and dies away.
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