What Can It Mean?
(Written for Miss Poole, and sung by her in the character of cowslip.) I'm much too young to marry, For I am only seventeen; Why think I, then, of Harry? What can it mean--what can it mean? Wherever Harry meets me, Beside the brook or on the green, How tenderly he greets me! What can it mean--what can it mean? Whene'er my name he utters, A blush upon my cheek is seen!-- His voice my bosom flutters!-- What can it mean--what can it mean? If he but mentions Cupid, Or, smiling, calls me "fairy queen," I sigh, and looks so stupid!-- What can it mean--what can it mean? Oh, mercy! what can ail me? I'm growing wan and very lean; My spirits often fail me! What can it mean--what can it mean? I'm not in love!--No!--Smother Such a thought at seventeen! I'll go and ask my mother-- "What can it mean--what can it mean?"
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"(Written for Miss Poole, and sung by her in the character of cowslip.)..."
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