The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-08-27

Fair young Hannah,
Ben. the sunournt fisher. gayIy wocs,
Hale aud clever,
For willing heart and hand he sues.
May-day skies are all aglow,
Ana the waves are laughing sol
For her wedding
Hannah leaves her window and her shooas
May 10 passing;
Mid the apple boughs pigeon coos
Hannah shudders,
For the mild Southwestern mischief brews.
Round the rocks Of Marbiehsad,
Outward bound, schooner sped,
silent. lonesome,
Hannah's at the window, binding shoes.
Sailing away,
Losing the breath of the shores in May,
Dropping down from the beautiful bay,
Over the sea shore vast and grayi
Aud the shippers eyes with mist are blind,
For a vision comes on the rising wind
OF a gentle face that he leaves behind,
Aud heart thst throbs through the fog bank
dim,
Thinking of him
Far into night
He watches the CLEAN OF the lesssning light
Fixed on the dangerous island height
That bars the harbor he loves from sight
OF how they weathered the southwest gale,
To brighten the cheek that had grown so pale
With q waketul night among spectrss grim
Icrrors for him.
Yo-heave-yoi
Here's the Bank where the fishermen Co.
Over the schooners side they throw
Tackle and bait to the deeps below
And slipper Ben in the water Sees
When It's ripples curl TO the light land breese
Something that stirs like bis apple trees
Aud two soft eyes that beneath them swim,
Lifted 20 him.
Hear the wind roar,
And the rain through the slit sails tear and
pouri
STEADY wen scud by the Cape Ann shore,
Then bark TO the Beverly bells once morci"
And each msa worked with the will of ten:
While up I'm the rigging, now and then,
The lightning gtarsd in the face OF Ben,
Turned TO the black horizons rim,
Sowing on him.
Into HIS brain
Burned with the iron OF hopeless pain,
Into thoughts that grapple and eyes that strain,
Pierces the memory. cruel and vain
Never again shall be yak at case
Under the blossoming apple trees
That whisper and sway 10 the sunset breeze,
While soft eyes fiosf where the &c. gulls skim.
Casing with him-
How :hey went down
Never was known 70 the stiil Old town.
Nobody guessed how the fisherman brown,
with the look OF despair that was hall irown,
Faced his fate In the furious night
Faced tho mad hsiiows with hunger white
Iasi within hail OF the beacon light
Inat saone on woman sweet and trim,
Waiting for him.
Beverly bells
Ring to the tide As IL ebbs and swslisi
HIS WAS TIE anguish a mauenf tells
ire passionate sorrow death quickly kaslla
But the wearing wAsh of lifelong woe
- lef Tor TIE desolate heart to know,
Maosa uSes with the DUH years come and CO.
I4A nope ar,I,s dead to tts stag ant brim.
Thinking OF him
Poor tone Hannah.
sitting al tue window binding shoss
fadei, wrinkled
sitting, stitching. In e mournlul rnuss.
nrgn' eyed beauty once was shs
Naen Ire bloom wss on the tree:
sRrilE aud winter
Hannahs at tas window, oiadlng shoes
Not s neghhor
Passing pod or answer will refuse
cher whisper.
is tasre from TIE ashsr. any newsr'
On Der hearts aarffi vita one
Ga az endless voyage gone
N9Gai AMI nsoraiur
Hannah al TIE wiadow, binding shoes
lis November.
Ncv no tear her y sstest cheek nedswa
From Newfoundland
No: o sal ressEEsag sln abe ioae
Mhispssing aoAsssiy, ~Flshernsn,
hsss yoe, sSvs yoa heard Of Bear
ga via watching,
Haaaass Al tie wiaaow. binding shosa
Tweaty winters
Rls&eh aud tear the rs<xsd shcrs shs ytsva
GSe2ty teasan8-
Ssser c5s las ufo1g4t her any nswa
stalk her el@ eyes silently
ea4ss toe Waite sails sx tie sea
Hope.ess. fAithfal.
HaansA 81 The window, binding shoes
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