The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-04-15
FOR LIFE AND DEATH.

Inc DOCTOR, as you stopped MIN at the uOOT!
Nay, never try to smile and shake thy head,
could ha' told thee lust as well afore
haven't lived these thirty years to want
Parsons or women telling what is nigh
When the pulse labors and the breath is scant,
And all grows dim before the glazing eye.
felt that something gave here, at my heart
In that last tussle, down there on the Scar.
Nay, never cry, fond lassie as thou art,
Thou wilt do fine withoutme-better far.
Thou'st been good and patient wife to me
Sin that Spring day, lastyear, when we were
Inever meant so cold and strange to be.
Come, an III tell thee. Sit here by my bed.
&c. where the sunshine rests upon thy hair,
1t shows almost as smooth and bright as
hers, 80
The girl wooed in Dunkerque, over there
File, how the thought the slackening life
blood stirs H.t lr
o, wild black eyes, so quick to flash and fill!
o, rich red lips. so ripe for kiss and vow!
Did not your spell work me enow of ill, ~ E.
That you must haunt and vex me even now!
And staggering down mid-channel went the
Never at Dunkerque Pier to furl nv sail,
While and the old Lion kept afloat;
The pier where she and her French lover
laughed 81,
At the poor trusting fool who had his due;
Quick though his hand flew to the keen knife S
haft. ..a .'a.#. d.. .. Oh
The English fist was yet more quick and
true. t'' -..s..-. '' ..
She and her beaten sweetheart, do they pirate
Yet of her triumph? Let them, an they
please,
shall know naught about il, lying straight
Up on the headland, meath the tall fir trees.
/ wish could ha' been content, my lass,
With thee, and thy blue eyes and quiet WAYS;
Thou hast thy BARN, and as the calm years
Thou wilt forget thy stormy April days.
Thou'rt young and bonnie still, my wench.
Thoupt make 'h
A happy wife vet Choose some quiet chap
Who'll love the little 'un for thy sweet sake.
And bear thee to some inland home, mayhap,
We're rough and stern, we on the sea-board
bred,
And can't forget, or smooth ranking
wound
Come close; there's just one thing left to be
said, lH
Before I'm dumb forever, underground.
Last night they watched the lifeboat driven
back.
The rocket battling vainly with the blast,
While the good bark, amid the roar and wrack
Drove Observation-Disclosures lay there hard
and fast. .......... ..t
They neither saw nor needed; as the flash
OF cold blue fire lit all, above below,
The French flag flying Ger the whirl and
crash, lN
Louise, Dunkerque," the letters on her
prov.
Isaw, plunged, fought, and reached the sink
ing bark, ". ..ttH A
The old hot poison fierce in every vein,
Seized on two sailors, shrieking in the dark,
Bore them to land, and turned to swim
again.
Claspng the rigging yet one man found;
l caught him, Struggled on; the beach was
near. r.....
"Louise!" he gasped, and mid the roar
around, Itf -....f F..
knew the voice last heard on Dunkerque
The nurderers lust surged to the throbbing
The murderer's cunning loosed the saving
hand. ~
Twas but to let him go; I'd done my part
Praised and avenged! Why, thus 'twere well
to land. I'D. ..s 60. .
But She No cloud on her bright life should
rest, s.. r...... s
An Icoud ward it; love and hate at strife
A moment, then, snatehed from the breakers
crest,
dragged him, stunned and bleeding, back
to life.
Somehow 1 hurt myself, and so it's over,
And better so for ALL Thou'lt rear the lad
To make some Yorkshire lass an honest lover,
Nor tell him all the wrong his mother had;
And sometimes-for thou'rt kind-when stars
are out 81.
In the green country, where no tempests
blow,
Thou'll say: Thy father had his faults, no
But still he died to save his bitterestfoe."
AL the Year Round.