A colleague introduced me to the late Rev. John Seary, O.S.A. who had taught in various high schools and colleges operated by the Augustinian order. When I met him he was a retired retreat master who had traveled the college circuit - Merrimac - Villanova - and their Florida institution. One spring he was giving a religious retreat to Villanova sophomores (pre coed) - the weather was balmy and the windows were open with these twenty-year olds slouching in their chairs and wishing they were elsewhere.
He recognized that he could not reach them that morning so he threw away his script and announced -"Today we are going to discuss "courtship" - and his listeners all straightened up in their chairs. And he began to recite the following:
"Last night I held your little hand - so thrilled was I - I thought I'd die -
my blood ran hot and then ran cold - of little hands one loves to hold -
no other hand in all the world could greater solace bring -
than the little hand I held last night - FOUR ACES AND A KING."
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