Rain and Roses

<h2><SPAN name="HONEY" id="HONEY"></SPAN>Honey</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="ig"><span class="letra">H</span>IS eyes were wide and large and bright<br/></span> <span class="ih">As shining drops of dew,<br/></span> <span class="i0">In which two violets had drowned<br/></span> <span class="i2">Themselves and made them blue.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">His lips were O! so soft to kiss<br/></span> <span class="i2">His smile was quaint and funny;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Couldn’t think of any name<br/></span> <span class="i2">To call him only Honey.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">No one ever tho’t that I<br/></span> <span class="i2">Was his sister Sue.<br/></span> <span class="i0">For my eyes were just as black<br/></span> <span class="i2">As his eyes were blue.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">And my hair was like a crow<br/></span> <span class="i2">His so golden sunny.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Father ridicules the name<br/></span> <span class="i2">But keeps on saying Honey.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_55" id="page_55">{55}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />