Links Of Love, The

My heart is like a driver-club,
    That heaves the pellet hard and straight,
That carries every let and rub,
    The whole performance really great;
My heart is like a bulger-head,
    That whiffles on the wily tee,
Because my love has kindly said
    She'll halve the round of life with me.

My heart is also like a cleek,
    Resembling most the mashie sort,
That spanks the object, so to speak,
    Across the sandy bar to port;
And hers is like a putting-green,
    The haven where I boast to be,
For she assures me she is keen
    To halve the round of life with me.

Raise me a bunker, if you can,
    That beetles o'er a deadly ditch,
Where any but the bogey-man
    Is practically bound to pitch;
Plant me beneath a hedge of thorn,
    Or up a figurative tree,
What matter, when my love has sworn
    To halve the round of life with me?