The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-08-14

Lies In the twilight gray.
BY the shades OF night half hidden,
Dreaming the time away.
Watch as rosy finger
Heralds the coming dawn,
Pointing the varied beauties
OF tree and wood and lawn
See the world spring to brightness,
Glisten with laughing dew,
Changed in a single moment: =
The heavens, the earth are new
So on the youth or maiden,
Fresh from the realms above,
Their twilight life Transforming
There breaks the Dawn of Love.
~
Mile after mile will you travel in
the stormiest weather if only you may
see her for few moments. Without
a qualm of conscience, you now are
apt to let the ordinary girl shift for
herself where escorts are needed. But
your dear one finds in you one SO per-
sistent that he sees her home the
longest way round, even though his
own comfort and rest are seriously af-
fected. You count all loss of ease,
gain: if you can but travel few fur
ther footsteps. If in Scripture par
lance, she ask you to go one mile, you
gladly go twain. Whether fit or I'M
fit you spring to perform almost any
task she may lay on you. If you are
Sin love" you know we'll i haven't ex-
aggerated particle the complete way
in which you are now compelled to ac-
knowledge to yourself that ssweak wo-
man" has atlast asserted her strength.
Her power is so great that, compared
with it, you are feeble and apart from
1t you have none.
~
During the hours of gloomy employ
ment there come flashes of memory
wherein one particular smile or one
expression of love brightens your
whole horizon, like lightning on a
summers night. Your senses recall
her every gesture with sort of costa
cy, that is a solace to your eager heart
until you return once more to the do
nor of sweet hopes and wholesome
purposes. As evening draws on, if
that be your time for visiting her,
supper finds you restless to be gone
Remarks addressed to you by the
home-folks get answered in monosyl-
tables, or you fail altogether to I'M
derstand what they are saying to you.
The sounds of the fields, the highways
and even the busy streets, chime in
with the rugged harmony of your
heart. Come the hoarse roar of the
storm or the gentle signing of breezes
they are both one to you. The storm
you defy and the breeze you would
force into strength, for you are man,
walking with head fearlessly erect,
treading the earth like a king. You
are nerved to your best because wo-
man has owned that she loved you;
she has bowed down her mightiness to
make YOU feel that she leans on you,
audit braces you up to all the best that
is within you. You are now at the
supreme moment Of your life; your
days are big with fate. Love is sub
lime in its influence; it is awful In its
possibilities.
AT the outset / spoke of love as an
oasis. An oasis is exactly the sort OF
place that describes the love OF many.
The traveller over dreary desert with
its drought and misery, filings himself
with joyous gratitude under refresh
ing shade. The very strength he gains
too often makes him grow weary OF
peace, makes him pine for change,
makes him dream Of more beauteous
spots yet to be found. From the
desert he came: back to the desert he
goes. Since the desert Is place OF
danger and detrimental In death,
would warn you from it; SO next week
we will return to our present subject.
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