13 JANUARY 1923, Page 16

AMOR LOQUITUR.

I.

0 let me live where Beauty reigns

With such enchanting sway

That, if to smile on me she deigns, Enchanted- I will stay.

But if she looks askance at me And leaves me in dismay

Without a single smile to see, Ah I whither shall I stray H.

'Twas long ago—we met perchance When in a garden gay She smiled at my attempts to dance To tunes a band did play.

Yet ne'er a syllable we spoke Save what our eyes did say ;

So she must smile, or my heart break—

Alas, alas the day 1

III.

Where Beauty is, there Love should be I therefore humbly pray

That she may smile to comfort me And I stay—come what may. She comes with " Welcome " in her eyes, And greets me on her way.

0 may we dwell and sympathize Together and for aye 1"

Christmas, 1922. TuomAs CASE.