WHERE the sunbeams, lightly flashing,
Danced and flirted with the vines,
Peeping through the spreading windows,
Watching many pleasant times, -
There one day they saw the table,
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Covered o'er with fruitage fair,
And there lingered at the dessert
Dick and pretty Minnie Clare,
All alone, while all the others,
One by one, had dropped away,
Leaving these o'er nuts and raisins,
To enjoy their tete-a-tete.
Swiftly flew the happy moments,
Happier ones were never seen,
Till, at last, the brown-eyed maiden
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A Senior's Souvenir.