Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1874-05-28
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Famine.

/ The sight Of a woman whom once knew.
/ Tonight in the silent street | We seen-
| Knew ouce in the pa-i-yet the years are few.
| Those by-gono d.ys and this isht bet y cen.
| I an rear 10 restore the old lme glean
Which shines in my heart when my eyelids
tod:
I Can bear to start from So sweet dream.
To face the kno Sled ,e that now hold:
/ But Sin hath ever his flag unfurlcd;
And fiin would register Whist know;
I shlll happier be when my heart hath hurled
| It, weight. al last. al our mortal foe.
| Aad perhaps come poor wan hands VIII wave
FiOm the shaiowy lands of Vani he'd years.
In lad response that a word may ave
SOM soul that appro4cheih the vale Of tears.
In the bushes and breath Of flowers she
dwen:
| The vines DER the lattice was trained by her ;
Each night. as 70 Heaven she SLOWLY knolt.
Sue saw In her window Ic woodbine stir.
Lilies and roses upifi.d their heads
To breathe her name 10 the moruing skies,
And yiolets sl led in their dew-ge mined beds.
! A. she bent TO look in their deep blue eyes.
Pure was her life in this girlhooi Of bloom:
The heart in her bosom was hers alone
But fingers Invisible carved it, doom.
Aud feet were approaching TO tread 1t down.
And the Thing came olward, and asked no
leave.
This garden of Eden IT gidcd through
And tn serpent came 10 the daughter Of Eve
A. he came 10 the mother whea earth was
new.
I AMI nsw in IN, house of immortal sin,
Where the soul. that Luciier loves are made
I The gol OF the prodigal dow, TO win
The false cares OF a girl betrayed.
Aud the Laugh that leaps to her hip. the while
And run> to her cayernous eycs in blaze,
l. mockns ghost Of ih Il golden smile
hich the Nio.eis loved Ia the olIcn days.
Docs he know that the yalage churchs,lll
stands,
/ The same a in Sa'baths of buried ycars.
I When III at and folded her pure white hands,
And gazrd al the IN ni>teI's face Though
lear:
| In the graveyard rises granite block.
/ Rou.h-h,wn AMI hpwer.css, bleak and
/ Does she care that It keep, not single lock
OF her fiih r AID mother, SILVER hair:
I Aud wh,re /, the snake with the iorked
tongue,
/ The viper that poison, the sweets he sips:
/ Does she ever think of the soul h. fun
In the blackc-i corner OF lifc's cohp,c;
Doe he ever com In the night 10 him.
To stand b, h- bed till he .Aud lerins wakes
\ or doc she a>ccn f,um the goblet brm.
To b. tossed on the snccrs u hl, brother
>elkcs;
And she; When the shasily lamps grow dim.
VI hen God even there directs the dove,
/ Does she lie sloepless 10 think Of him.
Nhi clothe nm again IN gtTb OF lBVcs
or i II with laugh II a burning .cora.
or with grinding teeth of que chess hate.
( That the name fcon I bitter lips /, born.
.. the man who j. carving his sisters
faiei
: Sod knows. For the woman thsi He hath
made
viii worship the lips " hose kisses were lie.
Win kiss the hand that bath >harpened The
blade
And knrcl at her fcet when shc bleed. and
dies:
And il may be, here, where they never speak
single word thai the Lord hath given.
That one tear falls on painted check
Which l. worth million OF hi IN heaven.
q, The day viii come when bcneath the sod
Their bodies viii moulder side by side;
And their souls behold the crmine Of God.
In court where the begglr and king are
tried
And them perhaps, on the golden page,
The tear Of the woman may still remain.
And the laugh Of satan be turned TO rage,
That be kindled hi. fires for two in vain.
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-fROM TIE EVENING roSI.