LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

Not long ago I fell in love,

But unreturned is my affection —

The girl that I'm enamored of

Pays little heed in my direction.

I thought I knew her fairly well:

In fact, I'd had my arm around her;

And so it's hard to have to tell

How unresponsive I have found her.

For, though she is not frankly rude,

Her manners quite the wrong way rub me:

It seems to me ingratitude

To let me love her — and then snub me!

Though I'm considerate and fond,

She shows no gladness when she spies me —

She gazes off somewhere beyond

And does n't even recognize me.

Her eyes, so candid, calm and blue,

Seem asking if I can support her

In the style appropriate to

A lady like her father's daughter.

Well, if I can n't then no one can —

And let me add that I intend to:

She'll never know another man

So fit for her to be a friend to.

Not love me, eh? She better had!

By Jove, I'll make her love me one day;

For, do n't you see, I am her Dad,

And she'll be three weeks old on Sunday!