Elberta

"Elberta" is a peach. The poem by Mabel Swartz Withoft was written in the 1920s for one of the Peach Blossom Festivals held in Peach County, Georgia, each year 1922 - 1926. Barbara and I found Mabel's grave and paid this tribute to her.
Sorry the graphics are so bad. Here's the text.

Elberta

Last summer when we parted, sweet
Elberta!
You looked quite fair enough to eat,
Elberta!

Yet this for absence may atone,
Since last we met you've fairer grown ;
Yes, though you have a heart of stone,

Elberta, you're a peach!

Your cheeks reflect the sunset glow,
Elberta!
Your rounded outlines please me so,
Elberta!

Your breath is sweet as summer dew;
Your life blood richly flowing through
Imparts a matchless charm to you.

Elberta, you're a peach!

You've caused me many an aching pain
Elberta!
I swore you never would again,
Elberta!

Your ripening beauty tempts like wine;
Yet though your charms were all divine
Touch not your downy cheek to mine;

Elberta, you're a peach!

I would not mar your bloom so fresh,
Elberta!
Nor bruise the fairness of your flesh,
Elberta!

I promised my right worthy mate
That I would be most temperate,
And gaze on you with thought sedate;

Elberta, you're a peach !

I would devour you with my eyes,
Elberta !
But gazing never satisfies,
Elberta!

Soon in your flesh so rosy bright
I'll set my teeth most sharp and white,
For when you're peeled you're out of sight;

Elberta, you're a peach!


Book about the Peach Blossom Festivals: Peach County, The World's Peach Paradise
Arcadia Publishing http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/

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