The Avesta, Volume 4, Number 4, Summer, 1925 Page: 2
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THE BUCCANEER
BY M. SMITH, '25
She was mad, she was bad, so they say;
Ah, she had a swift eye like a lance,
As she flirted with love in her day,
As she led half the youths in a dance!
She was careless, but never unkind
And joy was a bauble she sought;
She was young - and a little bit blind,
And life was all laughing, she thought.
At the tavern, it was, where she danced -
And 'twas there that the bold Buccaneer
Swaggered by with a song and he glanced
At the maid, and forgot his gay leer.
And he caught the warm glow of her eye,
And he caught her slim waist as she passed,
And they danced to a flute's silver sigh,
'Till he kissed her and left her at last.
It was Life - it was just, too, I fear,
That she never should know 'til the last
That Love was the bold Buccaneer,
Who looked and who kissed as he passed.
But 0, 'tis a long, weary year
Since Youth was a glad, mad dance,
And Love was a bold Buccaneer,
Going by, with his kiss and his glance !
And she is a dreary old crone
Who mumbles a word, half a sigh,
As she sits in the sun all alone
And stares at the youths dancing by.1
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North Texas State Teachers College. The Avesta, Volume 4, Number 4, Summer, 1925, periodical, Summer 1925; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2105592/m1/4/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.