TO MINNIE

Copyright 1895, by Charles Scribner's Sons

 

HE red room with the giant bed
Where none but elders laid their head ;

The little room where you and I
Did for awhile together lie
And, simple suitor, I your hana
In decent marriage did demand ;
The great day nursery, best of all,
With pictures pasted on the wall
And leaves upon the blind—
A pleasant room wherein to wake
And hear the leafy garden shake
And rustle in the wind—

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