Poems (Chilton, 1885)/Valentine for Sympathetic Ink
VALENTINE FOR SYMPATHETIC INK.
Dear girl, if thou hadst been less fair,
Or I had been more bold,
The burning words I now would write,
Ere this my tongue had told.
Or I had been more bold,
The burning words I now would write,
Ere this my tongue had told.
True to its bashful instinct still,
My love erects this screen,
And writes the words it dare not speak
In ink that can't be seen!
My love erects this screen,
And writes the words it dare not speak
In ink that can't be seen!