The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-03-28
PAUL'S FIRST LOVE.

a m your only ana HrsG hpNe !!
asked a bright-eyed girl as she re
clined her classlcally mouldeC
brow upon the shoulder OF hel
lover.
"No, Leila, you are not my only
nor my first Long years before
saw you | loved another-and
love that other still.
"Iove that other still, and better
than me! Paul, why do you tell
me this 2" asked she, raising hen
dark blue eyes and gazing steadily
into those Of her lover, half III as.
lonishmenl, half III SORROW, while
her ieweled fingers lightened con
vulsiyely upon his arm.
"You asked me, Leila and | an
swered with ruth and sincereily
YOU would not have me deceive
you, would YOU"
"You love her still, then z"
IL love her still"
"And better than you do u"
"Nol better, but as we'll"
"And will love her stlll!'
"Until death, and evn beyond
death. Over her last, last resting
place will strew springs earliest
/ blossoms, and bedew The sacred
spot with the pureot tears that
| lover ever she'd"
''IIandsomer than |, is she moi Y
Her eyes are as black as night,
and her hair in glossy blackness
nulvi,s the wings of The raven.
She has not your sweet blue eyes,
and your soll brown hair. Oh
Leila, her eyes have been the
sweet ST to me, that ever looked
lhe eternal look Of love"
paul, why do you wish TO break
my heailP Why have you taught
me to love you SO wildly and blind
w, and then in the midst of my
happiness, tell me That there is an
impossible barrier between us!
! This night, Paul, we must part for.
ever: | would not have believed
/ this had another told mel' aud her
eyes grew dim with tears.
"But not too rash, Leila; hear
me TO the end /; YOU love me too
dearly TO part thus Think you
that you could not share my heart
with one that | so dearly loyeE
"Never, Paul, neverw
"You shall, Leila, and must
Listen far moment while | tell
YOU of my first love, and am sure
You will be willing to share with
her then"
II will listen, Paul, but will not
share your love; | must have al!
or none; | am selfish in that re-
speci, and who, that loves as do,
is moi. Forget me, Paul, or forget
her foreverw
"Forget her, Leila Never! |
would not lose one jot of her pure
affections for he fairest face that
ever bloomed. No, not for The CIR
die of Venus or The love OF the
second Helen y
.'rhen Paul, YOU are lost to me
forever; we must part. Farewell
TO our every dream of a brighter
future. | love you too well, and
am too proud TO share your love
with aught created. O! Paul. You
have wronged me deeply; and her
exquisliely formed lips curled with
Indignant sorrow.
stop, Leila, or you will deeply
wrong me, also. | met this loved
one. as ] have said before, long
wears ago, in one of the sweetest
and sunniest wales of our broad
| Illinois, wandered with her hand
/ in hand for years, beside the spark
+ ling waters of our childhood {
| home. First by her smile of ex-
ouislte sweetness she taught my
/ heart that she loved me with I'M
uiterable fundness and never
have | doubted F; my trust in heI
has ever been steadlast and true
never has her eyes looked coldly
upon me, and never will they, illl
The death angel shall dim them iol
The long sleep. OFT in the still
hours Of night have | been awaken
as if by the tanning Of the sleep
gods wing, and beheld that face
/ those eyes gazing upon me with al
The beautiful tenderness OF
guardian angel over a repenta
6rodlgal; and kiss would fall mp
on nv brow more soothing thar
lhe dew Of heaven. The same
gentle hand has led me along lite
/ fiou cry way, aud beside il unrufileC
wafer; and If ever my arm wa