Riding in the Park, or down town shopping <br />At the Matinee, or singing in the choir <br />Everywhere a dazzling blaze of beauty <br />Blinds my eyes and sets my soul afire <br /> <br />How my heart thumps and how my head whirls! <br />Don't you look this way, beautiful girls! <br />Oh, take them away, they'll drive me crazy! <br />Oh! the saucy, pretty, winnning, witty, mischief-loving girls! <br /> <br />How my heart thumps and how my head whirls! <br />Don't you look this way, beautiful girls! <br />Oh, take them away, they'll drive me crazy! <br />Oh! the saucy, pretty, winnning, witty, mischief-loving girls! <br /> <br />As I sit beside them, charming creatures, <br />Little do they know how I tempted to <br />Throw my arms around their necks, and kiss them! <br />Though, of course, I know it wouldn't do. <br /> <br />Gliding through the gateway, there they go! there they go! <br />Don't they make you think of broken string of pearls? <br />Tripping up the stairway, here they come! here they come! <br />While the zephyrs frolic in their curls. <br /> <br />Every day so near, and yet so distant-- <br />Everywhere so plenty, yet so little mine-- <br />Doubtless they are angels wrongly labelled, <br />Angels made in other spheres to shine.<br /><br />Henry Clay Work<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/take-them-away-they-ll-drive-me-crazy/
