A Lost Ring

Beautiful daughter of my village President, Was presented by her father gift very precious; (Twenty grams of gold with diamond-stones content), Gorgeous-looking with fine red-sapphire-strip, gracious...! Merry, the girl went, exposing it to all, Father felt proud, though mother grew a bit skeptic; It's then, on her face, soon a cloud of gloom did fall, Hearing the story father grew like dyspeptic...! Pond, she said; while bathing; whole water they pumped out; To the utter surprise of all, no ring they got; Mother, guessing daughter's ways, got many a doubt, Shut her mouth, as she did not know the exact plot...! On finger of neighbor-boy, the ring someone found, Before the whole town knew, both eloped, safe-and-sound...!!! 27 June 2022