For Kate’s fair face and lower lace
Have made you change your mind apace;
Ah, yours must be a dreadful case!
J. D., J. D.
The Topical Times, May 24, 1884.
Suggested by “The Village Blacksmith.”
(With Apologies to the Shade of Longfellow.)
Under Britannia’s spreading oak
The Grand Old Woodman stands;
A presentation axe he wields