  [With Moving Tableaux Arranged for this Publication.] There were lovers three in the days gone by, They were healthy, they were wealthy, yet they’d sit and sigh, Sit and sigh till the window curtains shook, And all for the sake of a sweet maid’s look. For they loved her one, and two, and three, And each one prayed her his bride to be; Till she cried, “Ah, no, you must surely see, If I don’t love one that I can’t love three.” Three sad men, but they loved enough for ten, And they sighed enough for twenty, these sad young men. In their anguish did they languish, and they longed to die. Longed to die, till a year had passed or more, And a fourth suitor came to the maiden’s door; And he knelt so low on bended knee, As he asked the maid his bride to be, That the others thought “He will cut out me,” And their souls were racked with jealousy. Three stern men, but they frowned enough for ten, And they scowled enough for twenty, these stern young men. Then the fourth young swain in the days gone by, Wooed this maiden so love laden, till she made reply, Made reply--“You have won my trusting heart,” And at church they vowed never more to part; But they quarreled so when they were wed, That the three young men they smiled and said-- “It’s a lucky thing that he cut out me, For his wife is a shrew as we all can see.” Three wise men, but they smiled enough for ten, And they laughed enough for twenty, these wise young men. TABLEAUX. 1. Parlor scene, with lady on one side of the room, the lovers in waiting--each in turn approaching and being rejected, retire to a seat to “sit and sigh.” 2. Shows the young men only; having changed their positions they are doing a general “languishing” business. 3. The young lady in center of foreground receives suitor No. 4, who comes on “bended knee.” 4. Shows the first three young men in center of front, hands in pockets--frowning and scowling. 5. Shows husband and wife at left end of stage quarreling--young men at right in attitudes of interest, watching the couple. 6. The three young men in center, front of stage, one smiling, the other two laughing. |
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