Rosemary and Pansies/Simplicity

by Bertram Dobell

SIMPLICITY

My pretty little maid, said I,
May I your sweetheart be?
Oh, that you may! was her reply,
You're my infinity.

Affinity, you mean, I cried.
Fair maiden, is't not so?
I mean, she artlessly replied,
I badly want a beau!

1899