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Reily's Valentine to Isabel.

Quote:

To Isabel
Believe we as our Fathers say,
Birds choose their constant mates today,
And still does through the coming year
Their faith and truth and love appear.
Now like the bird, I've chose a mate,
To cheer me in my lonely state;
With her to love and laugh and play,
And pass the merry hours away,
Of winter's eve and summer's day,
Tis thou, sweet girl, hast wrought the spell,
And I'm thy captive, Isabelle.
As I am true to thee and thine,
And as I keep this vow of mine,
So help me good St. Valentine.

This is "Reily"'s spiral Valentine poem to Isabel Briggs, whom he married in 1845.

Incidentally, Knox wrote a number of other poems to her. After all, it's not far from songs to poems, and usually lyrics make decent poems anyway. And, as you ought to know, one of largest books in our collection is Shep's Beta Bards. They even used to publish the convention minutes in rhyme! (Well, not really, but they DID write poems about the good times there. Ah, yes, smoke on the water... alas that we don't have the clubhouse any more. Ahem.) If you have a copy available, perhaps you might mention any poems which catch your eye, or give rise to interesting questions - it is always interesting to see what pledges make of Lozier's "Legend of Wooglin"...