CATCH her and hold her if you can ...

Shuts, opens, and then holds it spread

In threatening guise above your head.

Ah! why did you not start before

She reached the porch and closed the door?

Simpleton! will you never learn

That girls and time will not return;

Of each you should have made the most;

Once gone, they are forever lost.

In vain your knuckles knock your brow,

In vain will you remember how

Like a slim brook the gamesome maid

Sparkled, and ran into the shade.