Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-01-15
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tFr0bi Tesnys0n's Ne,r Book Of Verse

IFf0ht Iessiys01's Nelc Book Of Verse
Waihog, wailisg, waiting, the wind over land aad
And Wiily's voice in the wind. 20 mother come
Why should he cali me tonight. when he knows
For the downs are as bright as day, and the full
moon stares at the snow.
We thonld be seen, my dear; they would spy us out
~, OF the town
The loud black nights for us, and the storm rush
When u, canno: see my own hand, but am led by
And grovel aud gcope for my son till find myself
drenched with the rain.
Anything fallen agains Nay-what was there left
1 have taken them home, have numbered the
bones, L have hidden them all
What am saying: and what are your Do you come
FallsF what falls, who knowsg As the tree falls SO
must 1t lie
Who let her ins how lonshas she been' youwhat
Why did you cit so quiet? you never have spoken a
O-to pray with me-yes-a lady-none of their
But the night has crept into my heart, and begun
to darhen my eyes.
Ah-you that have lived 80 soft. what should you
- know o. the night,
The blast and Il. the burning shame and the bitter
have done it. while You were asleep-you were
have iaai i1r nov ' bsb aa now
may go your way.
Nay it's kiad of you madam. to sit by an old
But say nothing hard of my boy, 1 have only an
kissed boy III the prison, before he went ont to
They dared sd me to do it," he said. and he never
whipped him for robbing an orchard once when
he was but a child
The farmer dared me to do it," he said; he was
And idle-and couldn't be idle-my willy-he never
The king should have made him a soldier, he
would have been one of his best.
VII.
never would let him be good
Ihey swnre that ne dare not rob the mail, and he
And he took no life, but he took one purse. and
He flung it among his fellows-I'n none of it, said
my son.
came into court to the Judge and tue lawyers. L
Gods own trath.bllt they kird him. they kiu'd
, him for robbing the mail
iney hangd MN In chains for show-we had al
ways DO ne good name
To be hangd for thief--and then put away-isn't
that enough shames
Dust to dust@ow down-let us hide, but they set
him SO high wv
That all the ships in the world could stare at him
God'l parlon the he'll black raven and horrible
But not the black heart of the lawyer who kild him
and hants'd him there.
And the jailer forced me away. 1 Rad bid him my
They had fastened the door of his cell. 80 nother.
heatd him cry,
furthe. to Say,
And low l never shall know it. The Iailer forced
me away.
And ssinceI couldn't but hear that cry of my boy
They seized me "a shut me up; they fasten'd me
Mother, o mother! he call'd in the dark to me
year after year
They beat nue. for that, they beat me-you know
that couldn't but hear:
And then at the last they found had grown 80
They let me abroad again-but the creatures had
worked their viii.
Flesh w OF my flesh was gone but bone of my bone
call it theIt:-.
My baby, the bones that bad snckd me. the bones
Theirs? U no! they mine-not theirs-they had
moved in my side.
XII
Do You think 1 was scared by the boness kiss'd
'anf %a assR wa am odin the night by the
But charge you never to say that laid him in
holy ground
They would scratch him up-they would hang him
again on the cursed tree.
SIn! u yeS-We are sinners, / knoT-let all that
And read me Bible verse of the Lords good will
Full of compassion aud mercy, the Lora"-let me
Full of compassion and mercy-long suffering"
For the lawyer is born but to murder-the Savior
He'll never put on the black cap except for the worst
And the first may be last-I have heard tin church
and the last may be first.
suffering-0 long -suffering-yes, as the Lord must
Year after year in the mist and the wind and the
shower and the SNOW
XIV.
Heard. have YOU what: they have told you he
How dc they lsow it: are they his mother? are you
Heard! Have you ever heard when the storm on
IT., the &c downs s,1s %. 6.,e5san an, ,;,.o ,,.,,
thatll moan like a man!
Election, Election and Reprobation-it's all very
But ! go to- night to my boy, and shall not find
For cared SO much for my boy that the Lord has
lOok'd into my care,
And he means me. I'm sure, to be happy with
Willy, know not where.
XVI.
And if he be lost-but to save my soul. that is al
your desire:
Do you think that care for my soul if my boy be
gone to the fire.
have been with God in the dark-go, go, you may
leave me alone
You never have borne child-you are just as hard
as a stone
XVII.
Madam, Ibeg your pardon! think that you mean
to be kind,
But cannot hear what You say for my WHY'S
voice in the wind
The Snow and the sky go bright-he used but to call
in the dark,
And he calls to me now from the church and not
from the gbbet-fOr bark!
Nay-you can hear it yeurself-it is couins-shak
ing the walls
Wily-the moons in a cloud-good night. am
going. He calls.
Will Considered in Wages.
A, desiring to retain in his service the defen-
dant who had been acting as his housekeeper
for many years, and to whom he was indebted
in arrears OF wages for such service, repre-
scented would n mr.