The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-05-12
POETRY.
FOR LIFE AND DEATH.

fNanghtfo be done'--eh? IL was that he
The Doctor. as you stopped him Mt the
Nay, never try TO smile and shake thy head
conid ha told thee just ~ we'll afore.
] haven't lived these thirty years 10 want
Parsons or women tel ing what is nigh,
When the pulse labors and the breaih h l. scant
| And all grows dim before our glazing eye
felt that something gave here, at my heart
In that last tilssls, d.wn there on the Scar
Nay, never cry fond la>sie a, thou art,
Thou wilt do fine without ins--beftrr far.
fhoust bten good and patient wifi. To me
Sin that spring day, last year, when we
were wed.
| never meant 30 cold and strange TO lie,
Come, an I'll tell thee. Sit here by my he'd
So, where the sun>hine rests upon thy hair
1t shows almost ~ smooth and bright ~
hers,
ih" girl wooed In Dunkerque, over there
Fie, how the Thought the siackening lif .
blood stirs
oh, wild black eyes, 30 quick to fash and
I'LL
oh, rich red lips, 30 ripe for kiss and vow
Did not your spell work me enow vi III.
That you MUST hauntani rex iie even now?
swore, ~ we drove out into the gale,
Aud staggering down mid channel went
the boat.
Never ut Dunkrrqua Pier TO furl nv sail,
tWhiIe 4 and fh,- all Ian k.,.f .Hnaf.
The pier where she and her French lover
laughed
At ih. poor trusting fool who hal his due;
Quick Though his hani flew 10 his keen
tfg knifc's haft, 8
The English fist was yet more quick aud
true. a.
She and her beaten sweetheart, do they praie
Yet, of her triumph? Let thsm, an they
please.
I shall know naught about 1t, lying straight
Upon the hea.lland, ~, arh the tall fir trees.
l wish could ha' been content, my i'.,s,
With thee. and thy blue eyes and quiet
ways;
Thou hat Thy bairn, and n the calm years
pass, ..Er
Thou will forget thy stormy April days.
Thourt yonny aid bonnie still, my wench.
Thonli make
A happy wife vet. Choose some quit chap
Who'll lavr the little 'un for thy sweet sake.
And bear thee to some inland home, may
hap.
We're rough and stern, we on the sea-board
KF4sal
And can't forget, or smooth n ranking
wound. r.sae. v5. z.s.-4..a. s.4-s= .=
Come close there's just one thing to be said,
Before I'm dumb forever, underground.
Last night they watched the life-boat driven
back, e
The rocket battling vainly with the blast,
While the good bark, amid the roar and
wrack, ~ &#sHs
Drove headlong stuck lay there hard
and fast. 4gs.a
They neither saw nor needed; as the flash
OF cold blue fire lit all, above, below,
The French flag flying DER the whirl and
'Lou,ss, Dunkerque." the letters on her
saw, plunged, fought, and reached the sink
ing bark,
The old hot poison ferc" in every vein,
siezed on two sailors, shrieking in the dark,
Bore them to land, and turned to swim
again.
Ciasping the rigging yet one man found;
caught him. struggled on; the beach was
.,I.ouisrr he gra ped, and mil the roar
around.
knew the vcice lat heard ON Dunkerqur
Pier. n In
Ths murtlrrer's lust surgid 10 the thrubbinr
heart,
TIL. mar,l-rer'~ GINNING loosrd the saving
hand. @
'Twa> but TO bit him 20, I'll done my part
Praised and av,ng"d! Why, thus 'twere
well TO land.
But shr--No cloud on her bright life should
An coul war IL; love AMI hate at strife
A moment, then. snaicllsd from the break
err crest, Hs,5sg sas Hz..sE.
dragged him, stunned an,i bleeding. back
tulif.. IA *p
Somehow hurt myself, and so its over,
And better 80 for all. Thoa'lt rear th. lid
To make some Yorkshire las an honest lover,
Nor tell him all the wrong his mother hall
And sometimes--fort thou'rt kind--whenstars
are out, ~ e
In the green country where no tempests
blow, 4
Thou'lt say, "Thy father had his faults, no
7# doubt,
But still he died TO save his bitterest foe."
.SR All the Year Round.