The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-10-27


would fill & ships sails we'll. | wonder
if it is blowing out the sails of Toms
ship and pushing it along over the
ocean this way: Oh blow hard and
steady and bring HIN back. Perhaps
he is in the focastlc now, with his cur
~ brown head resting on his hands,
a-thinking of me. How tanned he will
be after all this sailing round and
round.
@"What Il sweet smell the sea has to-
night, | love TO have it blow in over
those syringaS. 1t ruhS some of the
scent off and brings it along all mixed
up with the brine and damp. It's such
q warm. mothcrly breeze tonight l
like to feel it strike my face 1t makes
me think of Tom. It's as if he were
reaching out his hand and stroking my
cheek. Oh, my darling boy. You
can't reach out your hand. dCaric, can
you. from way off in the tropics?
know it, But YOU are thinking of Nell,
aren't you, while the waves como tum-
bling in or the white sand there and
the little hlaCkiCS come ana stand
round you under the big cocoaunt tree?
Poor little LlackicS, How they look up
into your blue eyes! And no wonder,
1t was like taking a rest, Tom, to look
straight into your eyes, your bright,
laughing eyes that were SO blue and
clear and had such a hold.
81 hope You won't have to stay long
there. You've been SO far and I'm
waiting all the time, Tom. And wait
ing does make time drag along. But
it won't seem long when you are back
and | feel your great strong arms
around me just as tight as they can
be. Oh, Tom, am hungry to feel your
lips on my mouth. And then, then
We'll get married. 1t won't seem long,
then, sweetheart Tom
GLOW kind of mOurnful that old bell
buoy sounds. sending out It's cry like
as if it wcrc chained there and wanted
somebody to come and pity it. They
must he now married. Hos got his
arm round her little waist and she's
leaning up 20 him so cute. It makes
me warm to 'cm to see 'Cm so loving
and sweet. When Tom comes back.
We will walk along the cliff. and his
arm win he round me. But he's got
TO go SO far, and it is hard waiting and
waiting until the ship goes over al! that
sea and rides mp ana down waves and
waves and waves.
"God bless YOU. dCnrs. You mustn't
mind my speaking to YOU You don't
know how it warns my heart to see
you loving each other SO. ! know what
it is. oh, my pretty girl, amt it a
comfort to have him right there ana
not to he waiting till the ship comes
back, trailing along. so slow over miles
and miles of ocean, Well. God bless
you. dcars again. and don't you mind
NClls making SO free as to speak to
you. She knows what it is that you're
affecting.
at kind of scared her to have me
speak so sudden. And he took lis
arm away. l should have told them
, that | was waiting for Tom to come
back and that the sight Of them so
tender of each other and cuddling SO
loving like made me ache to have him
here, OH my sweetheart. there niu't
anybody in the world that can be SO
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