The Van Buren press., 1867-06-28

It's hard 10 ever know.
Indignant did her father feel,
Believing II was so.
With courage yet, he launched MS bark
Oh Mary I'll domy will
I'll bid her come back by dark,
And she'll be single still.
Elsey can not have her now,
She is my darling child
will forbid the marriage vow,
This man | fear is vile.
He soon was In the presence of,
His darling daughter Mollie,
lie told her to forsake her love,
Abandon all her folly.
Ifyou will not marry him
Tonight, my daughter Mary
Demonstrate TO me the same
Now, 80 straight to the ferry.
Go along, don't hesitate
Give YOU 10 MIN: I'll never!
lie is not worthy of the fate'
At once well cross the river.
20 pa, will not marry him,
Tonight. so do not now. be troubled
But will surely marry him,
When fifteen days are doubled
I'll go home at once, with you,
Across the rolling river,
What say you know Is true,
From falsehood, me deliver.
Entreating him to let her stay,
Suspicious. even provoking,
She hurried on without delay
And soon they were embarking.
She knew not how to let him know
He to whom her faith was plighted,
How she might her hand bestow.
ID And how her hopes were blightcd.
She drew aside from sister dear,
And went into the garden,
She wrote note TO Elsey there
For fear his heart would harden.
His brother soon, came out there,
Here take the paper farther,
Ask me no questions here,
But give this to your brother.
Night now came upon the scene,
Her father and her sister
Grew more suspicious than they'd been,
While trying to "desist her.
Her sister placed herself to watch
Mollie's strange maneuvers,
Perhaps she said, I'll break the match,
They'll soon forget they Were lovers.
The sister could not her persuade,
She left the room to Mollie,
She would inform her pa, she said.
Of.all her girlish folly.
Oh pa, you need not say word,
You can not change her notion,
She'll marry him when chance affords,
For him she'd face the Ocean.
Says she. you can influence none,
She thinks she loves this Elsey.
He has her heart, her hands, her own:
0, bad and cruel Elsey.
Father do not talk too late,
At once take up your gun,
Decide at once. at once her fate
And. shoot the tempter down!
Now while they held this interview
About the lovely Mary,
The door was shut, and then she flew
With swittness to the ferry.
She swiftly to the ferryman went
Says she, It's Mollie Berry,
Get up you shall ne'errepent,
lfyou'll row me DER the ferry
, 1mpatiently, she could not wait,
But as one demented flew,
Ifdelayed, she knew her fate,
But waiting would not do.
Her father then resolved upon
Persuadimg her, he said,
He went into his Molie'Sroom.
And Mollie dear, had fled
Enraged now, he searched the place,
Would often loudly moan,
1t was no dream in slumbering peace,
Oh, Molly issurely gone!
He heard the oars upon the wave
But yet, he could not see
0, Molly, Molly, can you leave,
O,do come back to me!
Malapertly she went her way,
She needed not word,
Push on, push on, do not delay,
AS though she had not heard.
Her father still did cry and rave
Oh do come back my dear.
And ever time they struck the wave
1t seemed to start atearsoost
His cries aroused the littieS4bwn,
His dlsmay still ncreaa5dq l'
. To think his Molie then wHS Bound
And thought of him the least.
The river being very high,
They landed down the stream,
They never thought of danger nigh
Oft they dio not dream.
The shore was reach'd,the bank was game,
She plunged the valley dark
She thought of him, forgot all pain,--
. Was joyful as the lark.
Her feet exposed to earth and stone
might have said somewhere, II
That ever since she left her homo,
Her feet had been quite bare.
But bear in mind while we advance
81 She still did nothing lose.
For In her shoes she had her belt
And In her hand her shoes.
AZ length fatigued she met her love
"A short rest she did demand.
She then remarked, I'm ready, move"
,..i. And gave to him her hand.
Midnight found her father yet,
w It'll many sigh and tear
Crying TO his darling pct
Mollie, do come back my dear.
But Mollie still remains away,
Ills cries she will not hear,
While she and Elscy bless the day
When Tommy lost his dear,
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