The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-29
WAITING.

| WAITING.
can't believe my wedding day was fifty years ago.
This is the second day of March The clock is ticking
| slow;
The sun shines In across the room. Just the folk
gobyl
cant remember half Of them who nod pleasantly.
The little English sparrows dit in the lilac bush outside
like to watch the busy things There's that's tried
and tried
To break a string the children tied around a branch
| day;
How hard he pulls 1t with his beak Now he has howu
| away.
So 1t was fifty years ago. 1t doesn't seem so long
I've felt my age more this last year. and yet I'm pretty
| strong
don't do much about the house but still know what's
| done;
know as well what's going on as Jane or any one.
Jane frets dreadfuly sometimes, and yet she's al
ways kind,
She helps me when there no need and me on her
mind;
She needn't think I'm past all use or that I'm like to
| fall;
I've never missed nay footing yet, though I'm so old
and all
But things don't seem to take my mind that happen
nowadays.
like the folks used to know; keep old.fashIoned
ways;
read the Psalms and Book of john and ind them al
ways new;
And can knit, but can't sew I used to do.
The young folks think they understand Just how to
manage llfe
We old folks pity them; we've learnt its change and
loss. and strife.
Life is fight, tell plain it doesn't come to hand
Just as you want to have 1t come, Just you have
| planned.
If you'd toretold how it's been through these nifty
| years
should have been discouraged and had lack Of fears
And wished could lay down and die but somehow I've
| had strength
That's to with every day all through my whole
| life's length.
started fair my wedding day, for my dear man was
| kind
And always pleasant spoken we're mostly of a mind
OF course we had our fallings out but nothing that
| would last
1t always fault for I was young and spoke too
| fast.
And John, you see older by years than l.
At first was afraid Of him when we kept company.
He was sort of man on whom you felt you could de-
pend, sER
But very quiet in his ways His mother a Friend.
My hardest time was when he died 1t seemed to me
| twas wrong ~ II
The Lord should take him out of life and let me drag
As best could. with little means and all my children
small,
Just when seemed to see our way and get ahead at
all.
But God knows best 1t had been my life had suited
| me; - 20 ~ A@-
/ If had had easy time and not known poverty
should have been flghy thing without bit of
turned my hand to everything-tO knit build fence
There weren't the folks to call on them that could get
| to-day,
For help was scarce, the farms were few, and I'd
means to pay
went to work with all might and tried my home to
keep;
But can tell you many night I've cried myself tC
| sleep.
know the Lord has prospered me- I've done the bes
| could,
And I've stood in my lot and place anybody should
The farmland some folks would have sold I held be
cause knew sha "a
Some day 'twOuld be good property and all my hope
| come true.
I've parted with it piece by peceyou see the ha
grown,
Just as John always said 1t would II other folks ha
| known
And had the foresight that he had! Instead of tina
| they told
How should get along unless the farm was sold
My boys grew fast and took hold and then wa
| plain,
all the money they had they brought bacl
| again;
And like busy hive of bees we were from morn til
| night;
We had our health the Lord be thanked and tha
made work seem light
The children all have settled down In good homes .o
their own,
Excepting Jane and but her should be left alone;
She had chances too but then she's not the marry
ing kind:
couldn't do without her now I'm glad she stayed be
| hind.
I'm glad I'm mistress of my house; the children often
say
must break up that Jane and better off to stay
With some OF them, for I'm so old and James not oven
strong;
But won't listen to their plans made my toe
long
My life seems like book that's read and put the
| shelf;
used to be hurrying round don't feel like myself
Sometimes I'm tired of keeping still, want to be al
| work;
see so many things 70 do, and DON'T ike 70 shlrA
used to have to toll and pan and have to walt
| And suppose 1 mustn't fret but in a future state
shall be to find my place and be some use again
For there we still shall the Lord-the Scripture
| says 1t plain.
| So It's my golden wedding day, though we have beer
| apart
For forty years. and yet John knows that he has KEEP
| my heart,
And know that he looks for me and waits for me t
| come;
I've tried to do the best cOud-and here there IT,
| home?
Sarah o. Jewett, In Our Continent.
A NIGHT OF HORROR.
The great Pacific railroad was com