Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1892-09-22
THE SOD HOUSE IN HEAVEN.

wen yes. ~ sometimes pretty lonesome hers,
Particularly bout this time Of year
When harve-tin' IL dons,
An haydn her begun.
An early corn i hard min In the ear
You'd like to hev me tell Won bout ms Pos.
An Why I'm slsk an all alone At isstl
Why. yes. I'D kind Of like
To tell you bout IL. Ike.
Since you We s~sn kind enough to stop az asst
its twenty years since me an Liza came
Al settled down here on thi. timber claim.
The land was Wild an new.
An neighbors mighty few.
"A all around here there vas lots o Fama
! dont believe there ev-r wasa king
That fett 81 hiz "a I did 1ong the spring.
That this sol house vas done.
An Liza he'd begun
To ~ IL NJ With things she'd thought 70 bring
q course ~ made y pretty modest start.
Fer wealth az u was mighty fur apart
Hut stii we didn't mind
Ef re vas some b~hind
Te~ latest styfeS. fer re was rich AZ heart
There = alters lots o work shen you b.sin
To MAKE a farm where grass hex alters sseu.
Bat e--rytninE looked bright
With sort o rainhor light.
So I pulled OF my coat an ssfsd Ia
NA@ hANA NHAANNA 2 - III @NN
tome round to --e what sort o board VI, hAd
We see he 4 come 10 stay.
An wouldn . Fo away.
Fer LiEa was hHs ma al M his dad
never see % pert . chap ez him.
An fun o mischief clean up 20 The brim:
An alters In fer fun.
Fore ne could walk er run.
An ~ We called him Little Frissy Jim.
An when his mother made him his nrst pans.
You ort 10 seen that little Teller pranc..
half believed the child
Was really goin ~tId
The vsy he'd run around an Jump an dance
One day the sind got on a sort o swirl.
An fetched around % rs = baby girl
she had a pretty smile
Stsif with her all the while.
M - We called her Little Laughing Pearl
An them two Httie ones. - pure IN bright.
They SIZED this oif -oi house plum fuli o light
MADE en- Lon. . toys
An helped en- with their noise.
An us~i 10 like 70 watch en- sls~p st night
An Liza every special pleasant day.
Would send en- out around the place % plsy.
slier- like TO se~
En- come tn bother me-
An ask me things Al -t round in The ssy
On rainy days When they was k-p inside.
Pore any other sort o game was tried.
They d say Please. Dsaiy. pleas.
Git on your hands an kne-s
An 50 I'd 10 a ho-s fer them to ride.
An that's the way things vent about Hve year.
We had a little branch o Heaven here
n wan No gold paved floor
Nor p~arr gate fer door
That made it-o' but IT vas love ana cheer
Isomeha~ Kind o thought twould sller. y.
Ths -ams -~uushiny place for them an me-.
TIL. sudden like one day.
Jim run away 70 play
Tp youder, est beyond where We could se-.
Poor little Pearl she WASH vii quite four.
An SIN she grieve'i fer Jim ~ much er more.
Than Liza did. cr me.
An % ras hard 70 see
Her lonesome ike a playiu' round the door
An by an by. one stnl an starry night.
Her little face seemed more fhaa common
bright.
IN er she quiet lay.
On. Jim. We heard her say.
Aa' then she vent forever from our slEht
An sh~r- was Liza now an me-. hrart$nrr.
jest left again the way we vas before
The irtle ones he'd come
To share our sod house home.
Fve.ptin that sc loved each other more
II seemed 70 me tnet Liza was nv share
III part o them I loved I he'd 10 spare.
Hut lest fer Pearl an jim
God called her up TO him.
An maybe she was needed over there.
Bat after she "a. gone / couIdn ! see
Ia u vas murh odds how things vent with ne.
An 80, year after year,
I've est been stayfn here,
HsIf var betwixt what's been an what's 10 be.
An ever since the nrst o tbs sick spell
I've half been hoptn that I'd not git we'll
don { keer much to stay.
With them all gone away.
The place y lone>oner than I can tell
Yes. thank you. Ike. Ibleve Id Ike a drink,
ain I 20 worse. Est kind o. weak. I think
How bright tbs every where.
Whas soft. warm. dreamy air.
An great big flow. red an white an pink.
jest listen. Ike. l hear en- sing
An there's a shinin' river over there,
An near the r~iistenin sands
great big city stands.
An there : a Cock Of Angels IN the air.
Outside the place a piece. yit middlin' nigh.
fsee a little sod house bout er high
Ex this. but lots more trim.
There's Liza, Pearl an Jim
hoeeknin me TO come. Dear Ike. good -oy.
Harry p Mills, in Chicago Advance