And you cannot, cannot break it;

For the sweetest part of loving

Is to want a kiss, and take it.

Anonymous.

EDUCATIONAL COURTSHIP

SHE was a Boston maiden, and she’d scarcely passed eighteen,

And as lovely as an houri, but of grave and sober mien,

A sweet encyclopædia of every kind of lore,

Though love looked coyly from behind the glasses that she wore.

She sat beside her lover, with her elbow on his knee,