Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-02-20
JOHN REEDS THOUGHTS.


by BAyA ARD TAYLOR.
THERE'S mist ON tn, meadow below; the her
ing-frOgs chirp and cry;
Its chill when the sun Is down, and the sod Ii
not yet dry;
The world Is a lonely place. ii seems, and
don't know why.
] see, as lean on The fence, how YEARLY
tudges Dan
With the feel Of the Spring In his bones, like
weak aud elderly man;
I've had it II many time. but We must work
when we can.
TO sun,
Though up to the seasons font and nothing
be left unjone,
Is ending at twelve like L clock and beginning
again at one.
The frogs make sorowf,nl noise, and yet it's
the time they mate:
There 5 something comes with the Spring, II
lghtness or else a weight:
There's something comes with the Spring, and
II seems to me it's fate.
It's the laundering after a life that you never
have learned 10 know;
It's the discomfort with a life that is always
thus and so;
It's the wondering what we are. and where we
are going to 90.
Ny life Is lucky enough, fancy, to most men,
eyes,
For the more family grows, the oflener some
one dies,
And it's now run on so long, it Couldn't b,
otherwise.
And sister Jane and mvselt, We Ina We learne,
To claim and Weld;
She rules In the house at will, and in the barr
and field;
So, nigh upon thirty years!-as if written and
signed and sealed.
l couldn't change if would; I've lost the how
and the when,
One day my time will be up, aud Jane he tn
mistress theu,
For single women are tough, and live down tn
single men.
She kept me to herself, she was always til
stronger hand,
And my lot showed well enough, When | locke
around IA the land,
But IN lileu and sore al heart, AID don
quite understand.
wonder how ii had been ii I'D TAX IL wha
others need,
The plague, they say, OF wife, the cure o
younger breedY
Ii Edith Pleasanton now were near me {
Reed.
Suppose that a son well grown were there in tn
place of Dan,
And felt myself in him, as was when III
work began.
l should feel no older sure, and eeitainl
more man?
daughter, besides In the house: nay lt
there be two or three
We never can overdo the luck that can ueye
be,
And what has come 10 the most might ais
come to Inc.
I've thought, when neighbours wife OF ii
child was carried away,
That to have no loss Was a gain: but now
can hardly say;
de seems to possess them still, under tn
ridges Of clay
Aud share and share in u life is somehow,
different thing
From property held by deed, and the iiche
that oft take wing
L feel 50 close in the breast.-l think II rat.
be the spring.
IN drying up like brook when the wood
have been cleared around;
iou're sure 1t must always run, you are Use
to the sight and sound
But 1t shrinks till there's only left stor
nut in the ground.
There's nothing to do but take the DAYS
they come and 60.
Aud not TO worry with thoughts that nobod
likes TO show
For people so seldom talk Of the things III.
want 10 know.
There's times when the way is plIin an
everything nearly right,
And Then oil sudden you stand likl MA
with Il clouded sight;
A bush seems often Il beast, in the dusk of
falling night.
must move; my joints are still! the wealth,
is breeding raiu,
Aud Dan is hurrying ON, with his plow-t,a,
up the lane.
III 20 to the village store; I'd rather not /. |
with Jane.