Fuess and Stearns, comps. The Little Book of Society Verse. 1922.
By. Samuel Minturn PeckDollie
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With a ruffle up and down,
On the skirt:
She is gentle, she is shy,
But there’s mischief in her eye,
She’s a flirt!
And a dainty little love
Of a shoe;
And she wears her hat a-tilt
Over bangs that never wilt
In the dew.
Are the fabrics of her dreams—
But enough!
I know beyond a doubt
That she carries them about
In her muff.
She exasperates the girls
Past belief:
They hint that she ’s a cat,
And delightful things like that
In her grief.
But what does Dollie care
When the beaux
Come flocking to her feet
Like the bees around a sweet
Little rose!