Monday, April 13, 2015

A Family Incident



I meet her in the darkened hall,
     Too dark to know the miss there;
I struggled till I found her lips
     And planted then a kiss there.
You think I’m going to say I thought
     It was my sweetheart Fannie,
And then discovered, to my grief,
     It was my sister Annie.
Not so, I kissed her once again,
     Not once I failed to miss her;
Then struck a light, and O, my grief!
     ‘Twas Fannie’s pretty sister.



c. April 13, ‘09




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