Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-08-03
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From Harper's Weekly
GONE WITH 4 HANDSOMER MAN.
BY WILL u. CARLETON.

BY WILL u. CARLETON.
I've worked in the field all day, plowen' III
the ''stony streak
I've scolded my team till I'm hoarse; Fy
tramped till my legs are weak; -
I've choked a dozen swears SOS not to te
Jane ibs1 --.-r-
When the plow pint struck a stone and tn
handles punched my ribs.
Eve put my team in the barn, and rubb'd thei
sweaty coats;
I've fed 'em a heap of hay and half bushel O
oats;
And to see the way they eat makes me lik
eatin' feel. E-f iE,
And Jane won't say to- night that DON'T max
out a meal.
Well said! the door is locked. but here she'
left the key,
Under the step, in place known only to hel
and me-.
wonder who's dyin' or dead, that she's hus'
tied of pell-mell;
But here on the tables note, and probably
this will tell. ..
Good God! my wife is gomez my wife-is gone
astray,
The letter it Says, ''Good by, for Pm a-goine
away;
I've lived with you six months, John, and SC
far Eve been true;
But I'm going away to-day with a handsomer
man than you"
much to say;
There's han'somer men than me 60 past here
| every day,
There's han'somer men than mel amt of the
han'some kind;
But locin'er man than was l guess she'll
never find.
Curse her! curse her! say, and give my curses
wings! 40
May the words of love Eve spoke be changed
to scorpion stings!
Oh, she filed my heart with joy, she emptied
my heart of doubt,
And now, with the scratch of pen, she lets
my hearts blood ont!
Curse her! curse her! say I, she'll sometime
rue this day;
She'll come to learn that hate is a game that
two can play;
And long before she digs she'll grieve she ever
was born;
And I'll plow her grave with hate, and seed it
down to scorn!
As sure as the world goes on, there'l come q
time when she
VIII read the devillish heart OF that han'somer
man than me;
others do,
with two.
And when her face grows pale, and when her
eyes grow dim;
And when he is tired of her and she is tired of
him; -
She'll do that she ought to have done, and cool
ly count the cost;
And then she'll see things clear, and know
what she has lost.
And thoughts that are now asleep will wake
up in her mind,
And she will mourn and cry for what she has |
left behind;
And maybe she viii sometimes long for me
for me-but no!
Eve blotted her out of my heart, and will not |
.. have it SO.
u --r !
And yet in her girlish heart there was some
thin or other she had
That fastened man to her, and wasn't entirely
bad;
And she loved me a little I think. although it |
didn't last:
led 'em in the past.
I'll take nv hard words back. nor make n bad
matter worse: 20 4
She'll have trouble enough: she shah not have
my curse; .ts -
But IN live life so souare-and well know
that Ican-
with that han'somer man.
All, her kitchen dress. /. it makes nv poor ewes
blur:
1t seems, when look at that, as if twas hold
And here are her week dlay shoes, and there is
nd yonder's her weddin' gown: wonder she
didn't take that. ~ = -is.l |
Twas only this mornin' she came and called
me her ..dearest dearn
And said WAS maxim, for her a regp,ar para.
disc here.
D God. if Won want a man tosense the mains Of
hell.
en- n sneu
Good .bv, wish that death had severed nc two
o,or+
you,ve lost a worsb;nner bere-vou,ve crusbel
n l;v;n, be,rt
I,u vorsbin no Woman av,;n. hut T ouess I,u
,aor, ~, ,,..,.
And kneel as you used to kneel before you run
away.
And if thought could bring my words on
heaven to bear,
And if thought had some little influence
there,
would pray that might be, if it only could
be so,
JANE (eatering0