HELEN’S FACE A BOOK

HELEN’S face is like a book— Charming, all its pages. Helen’s face is like a book; What’s the story I forsook, When on Helen’s face I look, When her smile engages? There I read an old romance; Here, I see one living! There, I read an old romance, But in Helen’s lightest glance Far a livelier tale enchants, Wild excitement giving! What is printer’s ink to me? Commas, dots and dashes! What is printer’s ink to me, If with Helen I may be, Exclamation points to see Underneath her lashes? Gelett Burgess.