Written, upon my soul, in hat and glove,

Leaves everything unsaid: and what she wrote

Would strangle the young cupid by the throat,

If he were not immortal. I may love,

And she—is glad to have it so. Ah me!

How fine a woman draws the thread of hair

Which holds her lover dangling in the air,

Suspended above all eternity.

RUSSELL W. DAVENPORT.