The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-01-21
.And pray. friend, is that your wed.

"She whom love will look to th6S
heart rather than to the raimert."
answered he. as unabashed and grave
IL a. before; and the Princess fsit re-
buked and bit her sweet lips.
"Yet you bring no gift in your
hands," she said. allow dare you ask
ought of met"
BE looked at her and smiled, and
she saw that his smile was sweet.
Lady, / claim but gift for gift. l
bring you my heart. Give me there
fore yours"
"Yet you do not kneel IN the ask
Ing" she said. How may / listen
to such prayer?
Lady" he answered-and he look
ed tall and noble standing upright
alone, amid the sea of bowed heads
around-"I do not kneel, because
come neither to beg nor to pray, but
to demand my right"
Chow dare you'll" cried the princess,
frightened at language SO strangely
unsoftened to meet her delicate royal
ears. "How dare youf"
"Love dares all, or is no love-" an
swered he, and smiled still.
al have sworn that I will we'd none
save him, who is in ell my superior"
said the princess, and looked at him
curiously. do you call yourself my
superior? Are you so vainT And
she drew up her exquisite head, and
laughed low, gurgling laugh.
"No," he answered. "For love is
humble; yet rs humility Is superior to
vanity, you are inferior to me in so
far as you clslm superiority"
Gam vain, thenf" asked the prin.
cess in grieved surprise.
mo-" Numbered the crowd OF suit
ors behind, "Nol No! No! To the
death with him who afirms it'll Mol
No! A thousand times mol"
eyes," said the young man who
stood before her; and though he spoke
so low, she heard him above all the
rest, ard hung her lovely head.
eat least" she said, show can you
vie with me in BIRTH I am princess
and sit upon throne; and you"
"Your throne is senseless marble
and cold, dead stone," said he land
mine is q woman's heart"
"You are poor" said she, "and l
am rich"
"Nay, it is you who are poor" he
replied, ''since earth's sorest poverty
is the having only self to love; and l
am rich, for loving is wealth, and l
have loved long and we'll"
"But am wise and learned" said
she. 81 have studied much and pro-
foundly. Can you know more than
II"
EYES," answered he; "for / have
learned that am ignorant and earth's
highest wisdom can teach no more"
"But am beautiful" she said, with
q blush that spread over her face
like the sunset glow over lily. And
YOU
"a beauty that sees but self is
blind" he answered, "and blindness
ia deformity. 1t is therefore, who
am beautiful, for you so fill my heart
that wherever am, you are present"
"They say am good" stammered
the little princess as final plea. And
tears stood in her wonderful eyes.
The young man came nearer and
smiled again. and in his smile were only
pity and tenderness and love. yet
by your own showing you are selfish
and vain and weak" he said softly.
"And your" asked the princess, tiem-
ulously, yet smiling up at him as she
spoke, "are you so much better than
eyes," he said, "for am Love him.
self, and what is there upon earth
that is truer and stronger and purer
and better than Lover"
And the little princess, looking at
him, suddenly saw great glory flash
out in his face, and his quaint garb
fell off and he stood before her clad in
robes of scarlet and gold, and king
ly sceptre was In his hand, and he
had wings, such as we dream angels
have, and his name, Love-" stood
like jeweled crown above his fore
head. And the princess hid her face
in her hands and sobbed for very
shame.
II have found Love at last" she
said. 'sIt is he for whom / have wait
ed so long, and searched so far and
wide. Only Love dared claim ne.
Only love knew how to win me. Only
Love could teach me to love again"
And then Love bent over her, and
folded her in his close, strong arms,
and flew away with her right up into
the far of, wonderful seventh heaven,
where none but those who know Love
have ever been. And the suitors staid
behind with their mittens and their
cigars. and their promises that none
should ever know their names, and
were sulky, and pretended to outsid-f
ers that "they never could tell what it
was SO immensely superior that the
princess saw in that fellow!" Only.
luckily the worlds echoes cannot
reach so far as up to tho seventh
heaven, and the little princess never
heard what they said.
But,my friends, this is only q fairy
story, and. OF course could never hap
pen in real life, you know.