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A SPRING CONTRAST	A
A quarter of a century agone	B
Just such a face as this upon me shone	B
And in a 'bus too	C
And then as now it was the warm springtide	C
And then as now there was no soul inside	C
Excepting us two	C
	-
There are the same blue eyes the delicate nose	D
Same rosebud mouth and cheeks of blushful rose	D
Same chin bewitching	E
Same throat of sheeny white and perfect mould	C
Same light brown hair with scattered threads of gold	C
The brown enriching	E
Ah how this present beauty's counterpart	C
Woke instant tumult in my fluttering heart	C
Pain pleasure blended	C
Yet this one is as beautiful as that	C
Dear me why don't my heart go pit a pat	C
Now as it then did	C
	-
One glance of those bright eyes and all was o'er	F
I wished to die at least I cared no more	G
For life without her	F
These glancing on me now are quite as fair	H
Yet strange to say I do not seem to care	H
One bit about her	F
	-
I wished I were a glove upon that hand	C
The eardrop in her ear the zone that spanned	C
Her waist so trimly	I
And now in view of equal charms the bliss	J
Of such astounding metamorphosis	K
I see but dimly	I
	-
Well I recall the mad desire to hear	L
Her name who turned the common atmosphere	M
To heavenly ether	F
Why is it that I do not now as then	B
Care twopence if the name be M or N	B
Or both or neither	F
	-
Well I remember how I longed to pay	N
Her fare or in some other lordly way	N
	-
Impress her duly	I
Why is it then though not less generous grown	B
I'm better pleased this nymph should pay her own	B
Than mulct yours truly	I
	-
And how quick soaring hope as quickly fell	I
When I descried a military swell	I
Her brooch portrayed in	B
Why is it then 'twould leave me undistressed	C
If a whole regiment adorned the breast	C
Of this fair maiden	B
	-
And how my anguish when she drew her glove	O
And showed the plain gold sign of wedded love	O
Refused assuagement	C
Why is it that I do not care a jot	C
If this one wears such fateful ring or not	C
Plain or engagement	C
	-
Is it because my taste hath changed its style	I
And now prefers in place of Venus' smile	I
The frown of Pallas	K
Ah no Minerva too has lost her sway	N
I met her antitype this very day	N
And felt quite callous	K
	-
Is it the climate Ah if vernal airs	P
Incline the heart to amorous affairs	P
This Austral season	B
Should stir in every vein when beauty's by	Q
The throb of lusty youth Oh no the cli	I
mate's not the reason	B
	-
Is it the place Still no this threepenny 'bus	P
Is much the same as rolled the twain of us	P
Through Piccadilly	I
And fitter place when all is said and done	B
There could not be for bussing Pass the pun	B
I know it's silly	I
	-
Is it that I have learned their sweetest smiles	P
And airs and graces are but wanton wiles	P
And mere pretences	P
Or is it that the naked eye of youth	R
Sees all through glamour while I see the truth	R
Through convex lenses	P
	-
But wherefore beat about the bush old man	B
You know that you can give if any can	B
Reasons in plenty	I
	-
Must I then own it 'Tis because because	P
I am not quite not quite the man I was	P
At five and twenty	I
	-
An empty socket shows where passion burned	C
My sense of beauty now alas has turned	C
Pure intellectual	I
And to arouse a tumult in the brain	B
Or thrill the system with delicious pain	B
Quite ineffectual	I
	-
So I may gaze on her and gaze my fill	I
D'ye know I think I'm somewhat human still	I
I like her rather	F
But oh how things are changed from what they were	F
For all she is so fair I feel to her	F
Just like a father	F
	-
She dowers me with a smile from lip and eye	Q
And while I wonder what she meaneth by	Q
The sweet bestowment	C
Please pass my fare comes from her beauteous lips	P
And as I take the coin our finger tips	P
Meet for a moment	C
	-
A thrill A thrill I do declare a thrill	I
Upon my honour I believe I'm still	I
Intensely human	B
I pause and ponder what I mean to do	C
Methinks I'd better scuttle home unto	C
My own old woman	B

James Brunton Stephens

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