The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-01-22
xBE VILLAGE GIRL
Tiss LATED FROM THE SWEDISH OF RUNE
BERG.

The u. vent down and evening came, the
A miss glowing purple lay between the
I-rlsls AID heaven;
Tired and contented toward their homes they
wendell one by one.
Their work was done, their harvest reaped-a
we go snpo natde BAND Of foes all slain or cap
At dawn rsa against nim this armed band they had
And an had closed in victory before the fall OF
night
Close by the field, where all day long the hard.
hot strife W aging,
And on its WON W steps there sat a silent
And watched the troop come slowly by, In
weary line .afused.
scanned mans face nearly.
High burned ti.e ,ulor in her cheek, too high
She sat so quiet, Looked so warm, so flushed
1t seemed she listened as she gazed, and felt
her OWL j. l-t beat
But as she saw The troop march by, and
darkness rOs them stealing,
To every file, 20 ~ man, her anxious eye
Seemed mutt. ,Ing , a shy distress question
More silent L an q sigh itself, too anguished
to be such.
But when the iad all gone past, and not
word was So 5cn,
The poor girls cot ge failed at last, and all
ner strength broken -, -,
She wept not lou but on her hand her
wea.y foreheas. fnlI,
And large tears f..ll,. wed one by one as from
burning w~ls-
why dost thou weel For hope may break,
just where the 'Um is deepest!
{ a
less tear thou We pest;
He whom thy eyes ie seeking for, whose
face thou coulCSl not see,
He is not dead, he thou sht of love, and still he
lives for thee.
he thought of love; L counseIed him to shield
himself from danger,
l taught him how to slip the fight, and leave
them like stranger:
By force they made hiiu march with them, but
weep not rave not thus,
1 know ne win not choose to die from happy
life and US"
Shivering the maiden rose like one whom
awful dreams awaken,
AS if some grim forebouIng all her soul in her
had shaken;
She fingered not, she sought the place where
late had ragged the tight,
And stole away and swiftly fled and vanished
out of sight.
An hour went by, ano'hc, Our, the night had
closed around her;
The moonshot clouds re silver white, but
darkness hung bel = them.
is all in vain,
Tomorrow, ere the dawn is red, the bride
groom's here ag in.''
The daughter came: with silent step she came
to meet her mother.
The pallid eyelids strain =. 10 more with tears
she fain would smother;
But colder than the wi. at night the hand
that mo her pressed,
And winter Than winter cloud the ma dcn'S
cheek and breast.
s.NIake me a grave o L other dear: nv DAYS on
earth Overt
The only man that fed to-day, that coward
was my lover;
He thought of me and himself, the battlefield
he scanned,
And then betrayed hi brothers hope and
shamed his fathers ind.
When past our door the troop marched by,
and their ranas lad Numbered,
Wept to think that like a man among the
dead he slumbered
sorrowed, but my grit vas mild, ii had no
bitter weight
would have lived a thousand years to mourn
his noble fate.
so, mother, 1 have lookrd for him where'er
the dead are lying,
But none of all the strss.L III bear his features,
calm in dying;
Now will live no more earth In shame to
sit and sigh,
He lies not there among the dead, and, there
fore, will die
-Cornhill Magazine.