LAUGHING EYES.-Joe Wilson

I LOVE to gaze on laughing eyes,
Bright eyes that seem forever smiling,
They make such happy thoughts arise,
With joyous look each heart beguiling
And yet how often they deceive,
Those lovely eyes, so careless glancing,
Their truth, alone, we but believe,
Such power have they, each mind entrancing.
May sorrow never cast a cloud,
Upon those eyes serenely beaming;
Oh never may dark care enshroud,
And dull the lustre of their gleaming;
Could I but know those orbs of joy
From holy virtue ne'er would sever
I'd pray might nought that bliss alloy,
Smile on, sweet eyes, smile on for ever!
A frind i' need's the frind that's deed, if he leeves ye se much an 'eer te console yorsel with. It keeps him i' yor memry, ye knaw.