On this rolling planet ever have you seen <br />A home so like a palace waiting for its queen? -- <br />A dwelling place so fair, <br />So fill'd with treasures rare, <br />As the little white cottage on Evergreen Square? <br /> <br />Come, pretty school girl! lay your books aside; <br />Yes graduate tomorrow -- tomorrow be my bride; <br />My fortune share, <br />And reign queen there, <br />In the little white cottage on Evergreen Square. <br /> <br />Red as are the roses climbing on its wall, <br />Your cheeks of richer crimson shall out-bloom them all. <br />Your eyes (beyond compare) <br />A brighter gleam shall wear, <br />In the little white cottage on Everygreen Square. <br /> <br />Flow'rs of rarest fragrance all the year shall bloom, <br />And singing birds make music in your chosen room. <br />Come, breathe its balmy air! <br />Come, charm away my care, <br />In the little white cottage on Everygreen Square.<br /><br />Henry Clay Work<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/come-pretty-school-girl/
