YES OR NO. I. THE Baron de Vaux hath a valiant crest, My Lady is fair and free; The Baron is full of mirth and jest, My Lady is full of glee; But their path, we know, is a path of woe, And many the reason guess,—— 'The Baron will ever mutter "No," When my Lady whispers "Yes." II. The Baron will pass the wine-cup round,—— My Lady forth will roam; The Baron will out with horse and hound, My Lady sits at home; The Baron will go to draw the bow,-- My Lady will go to chess; And the Baron will ever mutter "No," When my Lady whispers "Yes." III. The Baron hath ears for a lovely lay, The Baron is blind to a beauteous day, (1827.) IV. Now saddle my steed, and helm my head, Stout Guy, with a ladder of silken thread, The wind may blow, the torrent flow,— I never can hear the Baron's "No" TELL HIM I LOVE HIM YET. I. TELL him I love him yet, Though memory now be crime; I dream of him by night, He must not dream of me! II. Tell him to go where Fame By deeds on land and wave; The laurel wreath shall be; Although the laurel now May not be shared with me. III. Tell him to smile again In Pleasure's dazzling throng, VOL. II.-16 To wear another's chain, To praise another's song. I'd have him bend his knee, IV. And tell him, day by day Although I pray for him. Come to our favorite tree; (JULY 20, 1829.) WHERE IS MISS MYRTLE ? AIR-"Sweet Kitty Clover." I. WHERE is Miss Myrtle? can any one tell? She flies to the window when Arundel rings,— Her love and my love are different things; II. I brought her, one morning, a rose for her brow; She told me such horrors were never worn now: But I saw her at night with a rose in her hair, And I guess who it came from-of course I don't care! We all know that girls are as false as they're fair; Where is she gone, where is she gone? |