The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1884-10-03
ILOVE NOI
BY Jus CINllE
Written by request OF Ms "Nny
Minette" and dedicated 90 my .s .,Ia'l
friend Miss y. J. ID.

| hlnette' and dedicated z" my .F .,IH''
! friend Miss y. J. D.
Il love you, love YOU, Cove ,nu,
In shadow, 10 shine, CT Ta.u.
And for all the Joys Ike can bring
| ! would not miss loves pain.
To-day these most sacred words are III
used and badly abused 10y that desT'cahle
| thing called by courtesy "a dirt polite .u.
| scamp and tritisr-thGt thing IN which one
| can have no confidence. Every time they
use them thus a lie is registered against
| them on the great book O.! life, aut Satan
| smiles in triumph over another victory 50
| easily gained FOR him. love vo1. The
| truth OF the words is washed out by desire
| TO win admiration, and The words are sui
| lied by passing through lips where dwell
| falsehoOd and deceit, and where u the
| truth should enter you would not Nno" H.
| love YOU, Aye, there fell the word, a>
| soft as the rustic OF the little sparrow
wing upon the evening air as they tall .r'Iu
| lips wherein the music dweIls. ! love yvu.
Simple words, but they tell Of the mighty
threads OF lille woven around the little Oag
there, one single one al which cannot he
worn by the rolling wheel @; time ROT
washed away by the mighty tide ,t ctermi-
ty. love you. Softly, gently, IS they fall
they tell of q mothers love, the strongest
dearest, mightiest tie that binds soul TO
earth-Ihe light that CLEANS along our
shores of Hfe-that no sorrow can ever
dim-is never hidden and burns forever.
Aye, il peuetrates into the dampesi, sal k
est and most dismal cell 10 lend a ray @.
hope 10 the condemned one there TO cheer
the lonely hours that SO tErGy are and 10
lead him on to better things in the harvest
by ana by.
l love you! Wandering forth upon God 5
green earth with a stain upon his brow
these words come to him again and find All
echo in the heart hardened by contact with |
this CryIal world and they tell him oI in. |
light that shOne III ctiulgeut brightness up
on his childhood pathway that was never |
dlmmed by sorrow, never ObScured 10y al |
versity, and never wauCd in the darkest
hour of affliction, and tear trickles adown |
that rugged cheek that has been SO roughly |
beaten by the cruel winds of life, for obey |
whisper to this lonely one Of his happy, |
rompIng childhood, and the Joyous day |
now dead, and in the mirrow OF his heart |
he sees his home and mOther-Jhat gentle
one now so sweetly sleeping beneath the |
waving leaflets, whose kindly voice tur him |
is hushed forever and manhood'S mirrOw |
is polished by the tear that came Uubiddcn
to the eye wherefEom it fell To earth 10
mingle with the dust TO IL not often known.
SightleSs and accursed be the eye that viii |
not weep when the worn book OF memory
lies open at the page Of childhood, home
and mother.
love you Old as the sands that eicam
upon the seashore; old the glin'aeriug
shafts of moonlight that kiss lhr silent
earth; old as the mountain top upon which
was never marked footprints old rs the
stone wherein is marked the ages and yet, |
forever new.
1 love you! There is another not a
mother from whose lips these words may
fall, and convey TO you message sweeter
than them all.
l love YOU! Sweeter than the murumr
OF the -jppling, laughing brooklct 10 the
one upon Sshara's deadly plains;
sweeter than the honey from the rarcgt
dower made; sweeter than the oder lron q
thousand rich perfumes, and swec;er than
the sweetest of all the earthly sweets is the
music of the words as they fall from
maidens lips upon the lovers ear who bends
in silence there, in whose heart the echo
answers aye,
Oh! | love you and love YOU,
More than all this world do,
Sweetest words from sweet lips fall
ing,
As they echo love ycul
Jus Ciyile" is most highly honored by
he reproduction of his article at is Fin |
shed" in the Good Tcmplar, and most
highly complimented by its editor calling
special attention to it in aIt editorial, and
he fiatterng remarks about the rendition |
If it by Miss Lizzie Bradshaw at the Tenn
Derance Alliance.