Love-making, how simple a matter! No depths to explore,
No heights in life to ascend—no disheartening before—
No affrighting hereafter. Love will be love evermore.
Ours.
Love-making, how awful a matter! We’ve been there before;
The father determined we shouldn’t—the mother watching the door;
Till even the girl was affrighted, and wrote us to see her no more.
——:o:——
My Kate.
(On Miss Kate Vaughan’s quitting the Gaiety Company in
order to come out in a New and Serious Line.)