Under the Wattle
Born 2/5/1856
"Why should not wattle do
For mistletoe?"
Asked one -- they were but two --
Where wattles grow.
He was her lover, too,
Who urged her so --
"Why should not wattle do
For mistletoe?"
A rose-cheek rosier grew;
Rose-lips breathed low;
"Since it is here, and YOU,
I hardly know
Why wattle should not do."
DayPoems Poem No. 896
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/896.html">Under the Wattle by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
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