| Samuel Kettell, ed. Specimens of American Poetry. 1829. | | | | What Can It Mean? | | By George P. Morris |
| | | I ’M much too young to marry, | |
| For I am only seventeen; | |
| Why think I then of Harry?— | |
| What can it mean—what can it mean? | |
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| Whenever Harry meets me, | 5 |
| Beside the brook, or on the green, | |
| How tenderly he greets me! | |
| What can it mean—what can it mean? | |
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| Whene’er my name he utters, | |
| A blush upon my cheek is seen, | 10 |
| And then my heart so flutters— | |
| What can it mean—what can it mean? | |
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| And when he mentions Cupid, | |
| Or, smiling, calls me “fairy queen,” | |
| I sigh and look so stupid!— | 15 |
| What can it mean—what can it mean? | |
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| Oh, mercy! what can ail me? | |
| I ’m growing pale and very lean; | |
| My spirits often fail me! | |
| What can it mean—what can it mean? | 20 |
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| I ’M NOT IN LOVE!—oh smother | |
| Such a thought at seventeen: | |
| I ’ll go and ask my mother | |
| What it can mean—what it can mean. | | | | |
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