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A BACHELOR'S VALENTINE, by                    
First Line: If I were younger, mary jane
Last Line: And she will love me dearly!
Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Single People; Valentine's Day; Youth; Male-female Relations; Bachelors; Unmarried People


If I were younger, Mary Jane
Would not so gayly flout me.
Or if she did I 'd make it plain
She could not do without me.
She will not be my valentine.
Forsooth, the maids are plenty—
I 'll venture that she would be mine
If I were one-and-twenty!

Why, forty years ago there were
A score I could have married,
And every one outfavored her;
But then, of course, I tarried
Till Ann and Lou and Susie, too,
And all the rest, I mind me,
Dropped me because, they said, they knew
They knew not where to find me.

But as it is the Widow Black,
Thank heaven, has some reason,
And knows that men, like fruit, don't lack
In worth if out of season.
To her I 'll send a billet-doux
And state my fortune clearly—
Some thousands, I 'll admit to you—
And she will love me dearly!





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