"DO YOU THINK HE IS MARRIED?"

J. GODFREY SAXE.

ADAM, you are very pressing, And I can't decline the task; With the slightest gift of guessing, You would scarcely need to ask!

Don't you see a hint of marriage
In his sober-sided face,

In his rather careless carriage,
And extremely rapid pace?

If he's not committed treason,
Or some wicked action done,
Can you see the faintest reason

Why a bachelor should run?

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"DO YOU THINK HE IS MARRIED?”

Why should he be in a flurry?

But a loving wife to greet

Is a circumstance to hurry

The most dignified of feet!

When afar the man has spied her,
If the grateful, happy elf

Does not haste to be beside her,

He must be beside himself!

It is but a trifle, maybe,—

But observe his practised tone
When he calms your stormy baby,

Just as if it were his own.

Do

you

think a certain meekness

You have mentioned in his looks,

Is a chronic optic weakness

That has come of reading books?

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Madam!-think of every feature,
Then deny it if you can,-

He's a fond, connubial creature,

And a very married man!

LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

HE fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean,

The winds of heaven mix for ever

With a sweet emotion!

Nothing in the world is single;

All things, by a law divine,

In one another's being mingle-
Why not I with thine?

See, the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower would be forgiven

If it disdained its brother:

LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY.

And the sunlight clasps the earth,

And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What are all these kissings worth,

If thou kiss not me?