The Superior Times

THE BEAUTIES OF THE ENGLISH ORTHOGRAPHY.

A pretty deer is dear to me,
Hare with downy hair
H hart I love with all my heart,
But barely bear a bear.

'Tis plain that no one takes a plane
To have a pair of pears,
Although a rake may take a rake
To tear away the tares.

Sol's rays raise thyme, time razes all,
And through the whole holes wears
A scribe in writing right may write
To write and still be wrong;

For write and rite are neither right,
And don't to right belong.

Robertson is not Robert's son,
Nor did he rob Burt's son,
Yet Robert's sun is Robin's sun,
And everybody's sun.

Beer often brings a bier to man,
Coughing a coffin brings,
And too much ale will make us ail,
As well as other things.

The person lies who says he lies
When he is not reclining;
And when consumptive folks decline,
They all decline declining.

Quails do not quail before a storm,
A bow will bow before it;
We cannot rein the rain at all
No earthly power reigns o'er it.

The dyer dyes a while, then dies—
To dye he's always trying;
Until upon his dying bed
He thinks no more of dyeing.

A son of Mars mars many a son,
All deys must have their days;
And every knight should pray each night
To Him who weighs his ways.

'Tis meet that man should mete out meat
To feed one's fortune's sun;
The fair should fare on love alone,
Else one cannot be won.

Alas, a lass is sometimes false:
Of faints a maid is made;
Her waist is but a barren waste
Though stayed she is not staid.

The springs shoot forth each spring and shoots
Shoot forward one and all;
Though Summer kills the flowers, it leaves
The leaves to fall in fall.

I would a story here commence,
But you might think it stale;
So we'll suppose that we have reached
The tail end of our tale.

-Louisville Railway Mail.