The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1873-12-20
POETRY.
LUKE.
In the Colorado Park, 1878,
ny BRET HAKTk.


In the Colorado Park, 1878,
ny BRET HARTE.
wo,s that you're rendn:-a no.cl7 A noy.,-wc
You man grown old and bearded aud his,n' sue
stnd cZ that in
stun about gals and their swec,hearts? No wondc
you're thin cx knife.
Look at mc-siar two hundred and never read sue Il
my life.
That's my opinion o noycir. And ex to their lyin
round here,
They belonged to the Jcdgc's daught.r-thc Jcdg
VIII" came up last year
On account Of hts lungs and the mountains and tn
the bnlsam o pine and Dr.;
And his daughier-well, shc read novels. aud that
what's the matter with her.
Yet thc sweet on the Jedgc and .tuck by hin
day and night
Atone In the cabin up ycr-til she grew like gho,t
| all white.
She wus only clip Of thing cz light and cx up and
away
Ez rife smoke blown through the woods. but sht
! wasnt my kind--no way!
Sakn o gals, dye mind thu, house ez sou rise tie
hin.
A mile and half from Whites and list above Mat
/ tnglys mill!
! Yon do' Vel! now thars gal: What, you saw
her: o. come now. thar, quit:
She was only bcdevn you boys, for to me -hc don
cotton one bit.
Now .hc's what call sal-cx pretty aud pump cx q
quail:
Teeth ~ white cz hounds. and they 20 through a
ten penny nail:
Eyes That kin snap like cap. So she asked to know
"whnr WAS hid"
She did! o. It's t like her sass for she. pcart cx
Katydid
But what was ! talking of.-O! the Jcdgc and his
dauehter-she read
Novels she whole day lors. md reckon she read
them abed
And sometimes she read them out lond 10 the ledge
on the porch where he sa.
And twas how "LOrd Augustus said this, and how
LADY Blanche " shc said that
But the sicscst OF nj, thn. hecrd. was yarn thct
they read bOut chap,
Leather. stocking by name. and hunter chock full
o the greenest o sap:
And they asked me 10 hear. but Gays. Mics Mabel
not amy for me:
When likes kin sling my own lies. and thet chap
and shouldn't agree"
Yet somehow other she was always sayin brought
her 10 mind
OF folks abont whom she had read or suth,n belikc
thct kind.
And thar warn't no end o III. names that she give
me tibet summer up here,
" Robin Hood" " Leather stocking." Rob Roy
o. tell you. the crittcr was queer.
And yet Fl che hadn't been spilled, she wa. hsrn,c..
enough in her way,
She could abber IN French 10 her dad and they said
that she knew how to play
And .hc worked me that shot pouch up thar-w hich
the n'an doesn't i've cx kin u-c,
And spprs-y0a see cm down yrr-az would cradle
an 'niin'r papInosc.
Yet mon. I" them rOvel- You Sec. she was wa.tiu'
and mOpin away,
Az" then she 90. rhy with her tongue and at ia-t Ind
n''hing 10 say:
And whenever happened sr"und. her face I, wss hid
by n hook.
And II wrrnt until she lett that she Civ. ~ much cz
n h,ok.
And ihi- WAS the way II ws.. II was night when !
KEN ny here
To say to em nil 'cooi bye for rcckoDcd 10 20 for
deer
Al ''snn up the day they lett. 10 ! shook EN- ali
round by the hand.
r"pt Mahel. and rhe was .irk. ~ they give me to
undctstand.
bnt jist cz passed the house next morning n, dawn
some one
Like little wavcr q mst got up on the hin with the
Mis- Mabel II was. sionc-s'l wrapped in mantle o
And she stood there straight in tho .cad with touch
% the run In her face.
Ard s'," looked me right in IN. eye ia seen su.hin
liz. II before
When hunted wounded doe 10 the edge o the
Clear Lake shore.
Ard had my knee on its neck and ii-t VA. rai-in'
my knife
When give ne look like tha:--w., /. 20, of with
it, life.
" W" are going soamy." she .a!a. and ] though. I
wouId say good bye
!" you i" yonr own hou-c. LuIc-,hrsc woods, and
the bright, blue sky:
SOH v" hIWASP thtn kln0 10 ue LIKE. and nanS has
found yOu still
A. good NJ tho air he brraihc.. and wholesome NJ
Laurel Tree Hill.
:" Aud well always think Of you, Lake. 40 the thing
we could not take AWAY:
The hn''nm that iwrs in the woods. the rainbow
that lives In the spray.
And yon'l sometimes think of me- Luke A sou know
you once uaed 10 ssy,
rife smoke blown through the woods moment.
hut never to stay
And then We shook hands Rhs turned but a.ruddcut
rho tottcrel and hil:
And caught her shsrp by IN. w.i.i and held her a
mint well
II was only mint, you know. tha, cI cold and cz
ahitc she lay
~ snow take here on my hrcsss. and th.n-w.;',
she melted away
And wac gore. I" And thar arc her books: |
bnt says not any for me-
;ood cnOnch may hc for romr. hut them and I ,
m'ghtn't agree.
rhry spilled decent gal ex might hcv made .ome |
rhHp wife.
And look nt me: :-c,nr ,w" hundred never rad
one in my life:
2%~xI. <.. NJ.