Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TOWN AND COUNTRY, by WILLIAM FRENCH COLLINS


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TOWN AND COUNTRY, by                    
First Line: You'd admire my city sweetheart
Last Line: All the while!
Subject(s): Flirtation; Love


I.

YOU'd admire my city sweetheart
(If you met her)
For her style.
Yes! you'd praise her beauteous face,
And her figure's perfect grace!
Ah! how daintily she walks,
And how charmingly she talks!

Yet --
I think you could forget her, --
Could forget that artful maiden
In a while!
Though you'd praise my city sweetheart
And her style.

II.

But you'd love my country sweetheart
(If you met her)
For her smile.
And her trusting eyes of blue
Would have far more charm for you
Than the changing laugh and frown
Of the fair coquette in town --
Ah!
You never could forget her, --
Ne'er forget that artless maiden
And her smile;
For you'd love my country sweetheart
All the while!





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