“Without One Kiss.”
Without one kiss she’s gone away,
And stol’n the brightness out of day;
With scornful lips and haughty brow
She’s left me melancholy now,
In spite of all that I could say.
And so, to guess as best I may
What angered her, awhile I stay
Beneath this blown acacia bough,
Without one kiss;
Yet all my wildered brain can pay
My questioning, is but to pray
Persuasion may my speech endow,
And Love may never more allow
My injured sweet to sail away
Without one kiss.
Charles G. D. Roberts.