Heart Songs

<h2><SPAN name="MILDRED" id="MILDRED"></SPAN>Mildred</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="letra">M</span>Y lady Mildred tells me oft<br/></span> <span class="i2">That she is mistress now of me,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Her voice is very sweet and soft,<br/></span> <span class="i2">But, ah, an autocrat is she.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Go, say the red lips, and I go,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Come, and I hasten to her side,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Her warm smile sets my heart aglow,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Her quaintness is my joy and pride.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I used to say in phrases fine<br/></span> <span class="i2">That I was master of myself,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The proud boast is no longer mine;<br/></span> <span class="i2">I’m subject to a wilful elf.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">My Mildred with the rose-leaf face,<br/></span> <span class="i2">A tyrant spirit sways your breast,<br/></span> <span class="i0">For humbly though I sue your grace,<br/></span> <span class="i2">You will not grant a moment’s rest.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I’ve served you for a whole long year&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">The woman new has come to stay&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">But tell me, now, have you no fear<br/></span> <span class="i2">That I will mutiny some day.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_120" id="page_120"></SPAN>{120}</span><br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">You give yourself a lofty air,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Your throne an ill-used father’s knee&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0"><i>Now worry fly, slink off dull care,</i><br/></span> <span class="i2"><i>I have my girl, and she has me</i>.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">My lady Mildred without doubt,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Your tender eyes are full of mirth,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And by and by, your laugh rings out,<br/></span> <span class="i2">The gladdest sound in all the earth.<br/></span></div> </div></div> <p class="c"><ANTIMG src="images/deco.png" width-obs="25" alt="[Decorative image unavailable.]" /></p> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_121" id="page_121"></SPAN>{121}</span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />