The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-03-24

me an exquisite thrill OF feeling ciuseJ
lily resembling vindictive delight to know,
, that he had seen and recog nized her It,
tie lapsesof rhythm aRd Rhetoric. And
irowned to hide it all.
"Oross Rhodesp interrogated he,
with q comic assumption OF plaiutiye
anxiety. He always called me that 10
tease me; and couldn't repay him with
l"Sandy Rhodes" as that was too overy-
lday an appellatlon to sound in the least
funny. -
But now Uncle Rem resurrected his
fine old head from between the oolscap
pages and handed them to me. "Read
this, ehIld," said he, land see if we shan
not accept it,"
So read
i Love, when clouds Of trouble iower
II Hiding all the happier skies:
4 Wnen around me gloomy fancles
u, on tneir black wings darkly rise,
4 Then, oh, Love, need the su6ahinn
or your trustfnl, sweet blue ewes
Look up smiling, Love; and trounia
Like phantom from me hies!
Love. when colder winds of sorrow
Blow across my ldnely path;
| When the storm of deep emotion Ff.
=, Rises in It's mighty wrath; -.
| Ilen, on. Love, your dear arms ronna ME
| Rob5 life of what pain it hath
Clasp me closer, dear ana golden
Grows my love-illumined path!
Love, when fruits Of earthly Eden
/ Un my lips to ashes turn;
4 when the bitter dregs of anguish
| FIJI the cup can not spurn,
| IncD, oh, Love- your kisses falling
| On my careworn forehead burn
| as summer sunlight burns; then, dear one f
Loves sweetest lesson learn!
sentimental doggerel-pitch 1t downw
said Sandy.
'Not SO; the majority rules,n said r
AND iald 1t reyerentially upon the one
other accepted article.
wen, the three remaining manuscripts
were rejected by unanimous vote, ana
as We rose to depart our proposed Waj.
manac" resolved itself into less than
nothing; and there we stood, face to face
with tue bare laet that only two souls
IN all our little city had written any
thing to suit US. wondered who these
gi1ted beings were, and lifting up the
two MSS. re-read the shorter one.
$50 you really like that:o asked Uncle
Rem after had aired some dozen or So
adjectiyes Of the mostsuperlatiye order.
uttered vehement "yes."
"Then," SAID he, mighty dryly, II DON'T
mind telling you that wrote it myself.n
Sandy ana looked into each others
eyes-was it possible, dear old Uncle
Renns And for the next five minutes
the babble of our astonished, exulCant
voices was all the sound he heard.
Snow, enoughp' he cried at last; Hlet
us say 'good-nIght.' Our almanac, has
come out at the little end of the horn;
but, ah, shall never get done thanking
heaven am not called to be an editorI
Lock up, Sandy; come, Feiicia!"
SHAY | have this poem, please, STRIP
1 asked Uncle Rem, as lifted the fools
cap from the table.
''To be sure-to be sure; tits grace
fully worded little piece OF sentinfentak
ism-pity it must 60 by the board be.
cause OF the utter failure of our plane
Take it, DEAR"
"You may walk on, Uncle Renn,m
said Sandy, as he hoisted the heavy
| shutters to their places. 81 will see Fe.
licia home." And before l could show
| the least surprise at this very unusual
mode OF proceedings Uncle Rem had
| stalked of and l was. left on the dark
pavement under the stars, that / used
iondly to believe were angels eyes, and
the brightest among them my mother'ss
| Then Sandy came and we moved slow
/ Iy down the durk, narrow street to
where, blocks ahead, the brighter
thoroughfares lay.
| "Our plan is a failare," said directly,
| to break the silence that seemed, oddly
enough, to be growing between us like a
| barrier. "ButI am sorry this little poem
l
own eyes will be the only ones to feast
| upon it-what pityw
''oh, a shameful pityp' cried Sandy, in
an indescribable tone OF voice.
! "Domt cAaff, Sandy; you couldn't do
it, you know" and laughed merrily to
| think OF the eSunny-teiHpered demi-god al
| my side going about collecting such
things as'troublc, sorrow, gloom, ashes,
dregs and anguish into one eifusion.
4 D. Axs - .o,1 L.
down to communicate the astounding
news in telling stage-Thisper.
"You did do itv' echoed ineredu.
lously.
Il did. In true Billikin style will
say, Il viii not conceal it from you-far
from it. II you ask me did ] write that
air trash as you now holds within your
hand will not deny i'll will say-I
i didp
"And you think have no trouble or
| sorrow, then; that never long for cer-
tain eyes to lift their dark-fringed cur
tains and bless me with their lght--that
L never languish for arms about me nor
care for kisses"
"Phere is Jenny Renn," I suggested.
"There are women and womeD," said
4 he, laconically. "My cousin Jenny may
teach her alphabet to the one who needs
TO learn. AS Tor me, l have passed the
lprimer age; but l can go no further
without your aid, Feliciav
"Ah, but ! was never once in Cupid's
school,D said i; 81 can not read before
learn to spell. What is it Jenny sayss
An A, y, c, a smile, a sigh
And all that lessons done2"
Sand" said sandy, bending low to
unlatch the gate for me, and further
more wishing to help me on, ga kiss
upon happy mouth and all is wonn''s
"There-Iherel 1t will not take me
long to learn the ood-nightr
"Sweetheart, good-night!'
And, before the next years daisies
dotted all the fields about, Sandy and /,
,, before our good pastor and assembled
Renns, recited our lesson in concert;
for in the interim we'd learned it well,
and our Voices faltered not In the clear
responses OF the marriage rite.
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