If I can read the tender sign,

He longs to steal a kiss of mine;

“In love and war”—you know the line.

Why cannot he discern it?

He longs to steal a kiss of mine,

He may, if he’ll return it.

And the man of observation has given his experience in the matter:

Beneath a shady tree they sat;

He held her hand, she held his hat,

I held my breath and lay right flat—