Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 4/Love's photograph

by Albany de Grenier Fonblanque

LOVE’S PHOTOGRAPH.

[Laura is duly “engaged,” and offers Charles her photographic likeness.]

I’ve a portrait already of thee, ladie mine,
⁠Love used the photographer’s art.
You look’d for awhile with your bonny bright smile,
⁠And ’twas fix’d on my sensitive heart.
You do not believe it? Then see in my eyes
⁠This image that dwells in my breast,
Thy minature, beauty mine, loving and gay,
Jumps up to convince you, and when you’re away,
⁠Sinks back to the place of its rest.

A. F.