The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-09-14

The Eoet who told of all this long ago
Left out the one thing we most wish to
know
what did Maud answer, with graceful
air"
Showing her wise as we'll as fair?
Oh, what was it. proving the maiden no
fool?
Tell us; Wen learn it, teach it IN school.
Print 1t in books, say it whenever
We meet judge by spring, lake or riverI
oh. poet, VIII you not gather your dust.
Arise. and tell us, for know 1t we must!
Like a whispering. far-away echo. again
Comes the poets answer: 1T might have
been"
We never shall know it in this world!
"Revenons'-
Thank heaven. we can always have NOS
moutors"
Dan Cupd. IL seems, had been hid in tree;
The Judge fell in love, and so ala she!
Now, love is a madness. At once the phieg-
matte
And mddle-aged Judge grew very cratic.
He behaved strangely that same afternoon:
A Judge, holding court, shouldn't hum
love-tune!
Such things aren't expected Of gown ana
wig,
Such actions are painfully mira dig!
The lawyers smiled, but from blame were
exempt
The Judge quite forgot to commit for
contempt"
But why dwell on trifes? The good mans
head
Was level enough when he came to be wed.
And he afterward proved himself perfectly
sane,
BY wishing that he were free again."
Wisest among wise sayings is this:
"As a man thinketh-so he is"
The poet confesses that time and again,
The Judge found his thoughts-where they
shouldn't have been
He had blamed his sisters, proud and
cold"
And his mother, vain of her rank and
gold"
Can a man be forced by sister or mother.
Loving one woman, to marry another?
No! He bartered his sordid heart for gaud.
And deserves no pity in his yea-nings for
Maud.
PITY" indeed! He had place and power
His halls and his wine, his wife and her
dover.
no sorrow
No care for to-day, no fear for tomorrow.
"And So" as dear Du Maurier says,
mo more" of the judge and his judge
ships ways.
And as for Maud: it was really too bad
That the judges remarks should have left
her so sad.
But. alas! No sorrow. no pain, could stop
her
improper.
And for her, as for him, the plain truth is
this,
"As man thinketh In his heart--so he Isl"
What, though many children played round
her door,"
She was thinking, thinking Ger and Ger
OF the one glorious hour when she stood
by the spring,
And His Honor rode UP like a prince
nay, hlHS.
And that nothing should mar it, bruise it,
or hack it,
Kept her small tin cup" on 'broldered
bracket!
Her husband, belize, ditched all day in the
And it hurt him for Maud to moon after .
Judge
No wonder he sulked "by the chimney
lug
Scolding land grumblng Ger pipe and
mug
He'd have done something more than sulk,
I'm afraid,
Had he known of Mauds dreams in the
apple trees shade!
For, whatever the cares Of her lowly sta
ton,
She was blessed with a lively ina ination.
Indeed she possessed quite an alchemist's
art
In getting such things as were dear to
her heart.
Her wheel to spinnet she easily turned.
Her tallow-dip IAN astral burned"
She had only to visit the meadow lot
In summer, when the sun shone hot,
And presto, back would come again
All the lovely things that might have been.
And loveliest of ali herself the bride
OF the grandest judge in the country side!
SO, with all respect to John Greenleaf
Whittier,
l find no occasion whatever to pity her.
And as for God pity us air. why. upon
My word You will please speak for
yourself, John!'
What happened to you can't be known in
our lives,
But we don't want other folks husbands
and wives,
If ever we do, the dread secret shall lie
In our skeleton-closet, deep-hid from the
eye
And never nos now nor hereafter, be sure,
VIII an angel dare open that closet doorl
-Leslie's Magazine.
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Extreme Case.
II think my Uncle jerry" said Aunt
Mehitabel, was the contrariest man |
ever saw / remember of his Dickin' nm