St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1889-09-21
THE wlFe.s LOVER.

Inave lover. l. IT'S long indeed
nce from my husbands lips sweet praises
since all my pains have earned one ANAL
thanks need,
Or one poor fault OF mine eooe sr.. s-o-
blame:
But then my lover. All do 10 best;
NO plan, no need but makes him new .u.
prise:
InAt should be 20 skilled. SO kind. SO wise
Mhether work or sport or sit At rest.
1nat way am dearest, he most proud OF me-
Only that sometimes he will take spite
AT some light task he deems for me no,
And. gently tyrannous, have me let !. be
weiL he forgets; we have been wed 10 long:
nut IN my heart have him. who but hes
ny lover in whose eyes did NO wrong.
am not lonely quite though day by DAY,
Evening BY evening. am thus alone.
Ny lover never has quite gone away
VINO talked til me-ak in how dear = lama
VINO looked At me whene'er he spoke orI
ana wnen he looked twas softly; not = word
however light. l spoke him fell unheard:
Even ne q speak for sake OF my reply.
An. remember. though to him it's noueht
How In the earlier years he could NOT find,
WIN me not near. pleasure TO his mind;
Aow' nnrrying home, from room to room he
for me. me sole, me he could never spare,
Me whom he needed for his every thought
Wnom his heart needed rs his life the air
star may long have persisted vet its beam.
neacning our world, shine and exist TO US:
Our happiness, however spent il seem,
Exnts TO me, sending its brightness thus.
Twill last think, for all my lifetime yet
Ana keep me from the darkness I might
know
IL in this world there were no long ago,
y. being his wife. could like him forget.
might be wearier dies drowsy round,,
might be lonelier, might shed foolish tears,
But Tor the love, the lover. OF far years,
but that some trifiing thing. scent. sound,
a GIT ne gave me then, a book We read,
Strings all that was anew, and have found,
Though he forgets. the lover whom wed.
He will remember when il is goodbye.
HIS hand that tenderly will hold mine fast
VIII De again my lovers while die;
And afterwArd when he recalls the past
Know twill be as though through all our life
had been what used to be TO him.
As though our sunshine never had grown
dim
And I had been his love as well as wife
Always. He'll think twas always; he'll, I
Forget wcaried HIM and pleased him i'll
Forget not the old love, but this long chill
READING s,o through tears Y name upon my
He'll think he misses me, Al though I had
been
Some one he always needed, priced, now still.
Twas once, and he'll forget the while b.
tween.
have not lost my lover; no, not lost;
No more than lilies have been lost whose
root
Il in the earth while the dead leaves ere
tossed
o. chilly gusts and autumn is afoot:
within the loot there live the bud and Leaf
And In ones heart OF memory the flowers
Live on that were abloom in happy hours.
love my lover: l make little grief;
have my lover. him who took my youth,
And kept it very happy some years long;
But youth has waned; yet in my heart too
strong,
For desire youths happiness. in sooth.
Ofbeing loved and praised, and that's gone
by.
Well I am merry at the true, true, truth:
Not lonely, 1! have y lover, I,
Augusta Webster, in Good Words.