Poems (Geisse)/A Bachelor's Musings

by Mary A. Geisse

A BACHELOR'S' MUSINGS.

I sometimes like to sit and think,
 If I had married Margaret Ann,
The life I would be forced to live
 Would quite upset its present plan.

I could not have this costly flat,
 Nor would I have a cent to spare;
I'd live in some cheap little house
 And toil beneath a load of care.

There might be noisy children, too,
 And Margaret Ann—ah! who can tell—
Might not have proved the mate for me,
 When "Love's young dream" had lost its spell,

And yet, upon a stormy night,
 When I can feel the outer gloom,
I'd yield my luxury and my pipe
 To see her flit about the room.

I'd even hear an infant's squall,
 And bear it with a stoic's smile,
To feast my eyes on her sweet face,
 And clasp her hand a little while.

What curious hearts we mortals bear,
 How few of us can find content,
We choose the path that seems most fair,
 And yet how often we repent.

Repent although we do not know
 But that our choice has been the best,
And that the joys we crave to-day,
 To-morrow might not lose their zest.