Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-15
SOME OF THE POETIC PASSAGES.


There are nine stanzas In the prelude
which are the embodiment of child's re
membrance. The last two stanzas follow:
viii.
Sun, moon, and stars behold the land and
No less than ever lovely, bright rs hope
Could hover, or as happiness can be:
Fair rs OF old the lawns to seaward slope.
The fields to seaward slant and close ana
But where of old from strong and sleepless
Tho expIting fountains fed their shapely
Where light once dwelt in water, dust now
The springs Of earth may slacken, and the
Find no more laughing lustre to relume
Where once the sunlight and the spring
But not on heart or soul may time or doom
Cast aught of drought or lower with aught
II past and future. hope and memory, be
hinged round about with love, last bound
As all the world is girdled with the sea-
Reginald's sacrifice of his love in response
to Franks suggestion that Mable may love
him is put in these lines:
No, my boy.
She does not. Come, we need not talk Of
that.
think mock-modesty mincing lie
The dirtiest form of self-conceit thatfs,
Quite, and in either sense the vainest. You
She may not love just yet-but me, know,
She never will. / ought to say Thank
God,"
Being poor, and knowing myself unworthy
"A younger sons son, with closed career
Should peace prove now as stable as it
fl on my sidc loved her as I should
And If knew she would be, as fear
No, hope she will, happier with you than
Ican't do that, quite; If could. and did,
should be just a little less unfit
To dream that she could love me-which
don't.
Regi,lald-I do mean want her to be happy;
as for you,
III don't want you to be miserable
1t only shows am not quite cur.
Frank-You never were; but if you meant me
What made you go campaigning and come
back
A hero?
Frank SAYS to Reginald that Mabel ought
indeed to love him if she only knew how
we'll he loved her. To this Reginald re-
spends:
And that please Cod she never will. Whom
And She are married, if you tell her so.
You'll play the traitor, not to me but her
Make her unhappy for the minute. Don't.
She would be sorrier than I'm worth, you
know,
To think OF any sorrow not her own
And given by her unconsciously. She had
Always the sweetest heart girl could have. |
"Sweetheart!' she might have been the first
girl born
Whose lover ever called her by the name.
The conclusion of Franks dialogue with
Mabel, in which he discovers her love for |
is:
love you; but see how you love him;
And think you are right. He loves you
more than L
Yes more than can-more than most men
could
Love even YOU You arc no mate for me,
am no mate for you, the song says. We'll,
so be it. God send you happiness with him! |
He has done more than give you up-give
All chance of you-he would not take the
That honor, as he thought. forbade. Do you
Reward him.
The interview between Mabel and Regi-
,ald follows:
on remember our old rides
like swim against charg.
ing sea
It was than like q race across the moors |
Nabe.-But when a breaker got you down
When YOU lay hurt it might have been to
Will voa % not tell me what you thought of
then?
Reginald Nothing can tell you Of.
habel-Was all mist and whirlwind-like
the shore
Ont Wonder when the northeast wind is
high7
That T can fancy. But when sense came
You thought of nothing you can tell me of,
Reginald7 nothing?
l can tell
Any one-least of all, women or men.
Franks wife tsat is to be, Mable.
ddbel-And where
Has Frank concealed her from all eyes but
yours?
You are too sharp-sighted, Redgte.
she not
Ask me just now what If she knew-she
must
Have known the answer that could not
make
1t was not right or kind to ask'
fdbeL-Not she.
6nbeL-She's innocent, at least
mean-f
label mean she is not here. Nor any
where
But in the silliest dreamlest brain alive
The blindest head cheating the trustiest
heart
That ever made man-untrustworthy.
You did not dream or think OF any old