West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-03-01
THAT GENTLE MAR FROM BOSTON
TOWN
AN IpYL OF OREGON.

Two webfo5t brothers loved fair
Young lady, rich and good TO see:
And oh, her black and abundant hair
And oh, her wonderous witcheryl
Her father kept "A cattle farm:
These brothers kept her safe from harm.
From harm OF cattle on the hill:
From thick nscked bulls. loud believing
The lveiong morning loud and shrill,
AMI laShing sides Ike anything
Prom roaring bulls that tossed the sand
And paved the lilies from the land.
There came third youn man. He came
From far md famous Boston town.
lie was not handsome, was not game.
But he could cook goose" as brown
As any man that st foot on
The sunlit shores OF Oregon.
This Boston man he taught the ScnOol,
Taught gentleness and love alway;
Said love an kindness as n rule
Would ultimately make il pay
lie was SO gentle, kind, that he
Could make noun and verb agree.
So when one day the brothers grew
All Jealous and did strip 10 fight,
He gnnt'y s.ood between the two
AMI meeSly told them twas not right
II have high n, better pan,"
OItspoke this gente Boston man.
'My plan is this: Forget this fray
About that liiy hand o. hers:
90 take your guns and hunt oil day
High up yon lofty hill OF tirs,
And while yoI hunt, my loving doves
why will learn which one she loves
The lrothers sat the winly hill.
Their ha Shone yellow, like spun gold
Their ritl = cross ad their laps hut still
They sat AMI sighel and shook with cold
Their hearts lay blea ling far beoN:
Above them gleamel white peaks of snow.
Their hounds lay crou-hing. slim and neat:
A sp tied rirc an tn, grass.
Jher valley lay beneath their feet;
They h'a-d the wide winged eagles pass;
The eagle cleft the clouds above,
Yet what could they -lu, sigh and love.
"If could die - the elder sigheI,
- Ny dear young brother here might wed -
"Ch, woId to heaven hal diel.1
The younger ghed with hen led head,
Tden each locke each full In the face
And each sprang up and stool in place.
IF could die, - the el Ter spaks.
Die by your hand, the wJrll would say
Twas accident; AMI for her sake,
Dear brother, be it So, pray"
NoS that the youngCrnoOly said:
Then tossed his gun and turned his head.
And fifty PAGES back he paced.
And rs he paced he DIRE the ball;
Then sudden stopped an wheele and faced
III brother u The death and fall.
Two lot ran wild upol tbs air
But, 10, the two stood harmless there.
TT c eagle poised high in the air:
Far, far below tn. b.llowing
OF hu locks ceased, AMI everywhere
Va silence sat all questioning.
The spo 10 houn Is ran circli ~ round
Their r3d, wet noses to the ground.
And now each brother cane to know
That ca IN had drawn the deadly ball;
AMI for that fair grl far below
Had sOught IN vain In : lent fall
And then the two did glailv shake,
And thus the e'd,r brayely splke:
Snow let US run right hast "
And tell the kind ,hoolmaster all,
Yea, yea, and II she choose not me,
But all on you her fayors fall,
This valiant scene, till all life ends,
Dear brother, bh1s US best OF friends
Tho hounds sped down, a spotted line.
The bulls in tall, abundant grass
Shook back their horns from bloom and vine
And trumpete1 TO see them pass;
They were so fair, they love so true,
These brothers scarce knew what 10 do.
They sought the kind schoolmaster out
As swift as sweeps the light OF morn:
They could but love, they conld not doubt
This man 50 gentle, in n horn,
they cried: Now, whose the lily hand,
That ladys OF this webfoot Ian ~
They bowed before the hig nosed man.
That long nose1 mal from Boston town;
They talked as only lovers can,
Iney talked, but he could only frown:
And still they talked, and still they plead;
lt was as pleading with the dead
At last the Boston man did speak:
Her iather has thousand COWS,
An hundred bulls all fat AMI slick:
lie a so has tn ample house,
The brothers eyes stick out thareat
SO far you might have hung your hat
3" liked the looks OF this big house
NV lovely boys won't you come in
Her father hasa thousand COWS
He alsJ has q heap OF tin
The girl! Oh yes, the girl, You see.
The girl just now she married me-
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