Sunday morning globe., 1901-08-25


flight.
And woe TO tine rider woe TO the st.od
Who falls I'm front of their mad STAN
pCJc,
Was that thunder? rose and graspeJ
the cord
OF my swift mustang without % word
! spring TO the saddle. she clung De
hind
Away, on a hot chase down the wind
And never was fox hunt ualf SO hare
And never was slooj 500 little spared
For we rode for our lives, You sIal
hear how We Jared
In Texas. down by tine Rio Graude.
/ The mustang Few, and we urged him
on.
There was one chance loft-aud yog
have but one
Halt Jump TO the ground. and shoot
your horse.
Crouch under his carcass and take
your chance,
And if the steers. i'm their frantic
course.
Don't batter you both TO pieces at once
/ You may thank your stars. II they do
good bye
TO the QuiehonIug kiss and the long
drawn slgh
And the open earth and the open Sky
In Texas, down by the Rio Graude
The cattle gained ON us, and just as ]
felt
For my old siXshooter behind in my
belt
Down came the mustang and down
came we.
Ciuging together and-what was the
Tost2
A body chat spread itself ON my breast
Two arms that shielded my dizzy
head
Two lips that close to my lips were
pressed.
Then came the thunder i'm our ears,
AS over us surged the sea of steers.
Blows that beat blood into my eyes.
| And when / could rise
Lasca was dead.
] gouged ont q grave q few feet deep
/ And there, in oarth's arms. 1 laid hoI
40 sleep,
| And there She is sleeping. and no one
knows.
WuIie the summer shines and the win
ter SHOWS
For many a year the flowers have
spread
A pain of petals above her head
And the little gravy hawk hangs poised
in air.
| And The Sly coyote ros here and there
/ And the black snake glldcs and glia
tens and slides
/ Into a rift of the cottonwood tree;
/ And the buzZard sails ON and yOmc
and is gone
| Stately and stIu as "a snip at sea,
And they wonder why do no. care
For the things that are like the things
that We're.
! For half my heart lies buried there.
With Lasca, down by the Rio Graude
Don't forget the copy you promised
| 10 mail me next morning, Mrs RO
! land. said Mr. Baxter 90 contend Do,
scrap-b0ok is complete without COP,
of Lasca."
"I know one scrap-book it win Do
/ in at am early day. and perhaps Mis-
! LyhranG would like @ copy.
Indeed ] would, she replied
"With your attention. said Mr. BaT
| ter, "I viii tell you of the lady ] me
mp at the Grand at a matinee:
Twas ON q winters afternoon, s.,
mwky SO dreary. SO drear
| The usher showed me down the aisle
dfy-Jw0, second tier
And just i'm front of me q handsome
lady sat;
I couldn't say how it happened, bu
we began t1 chat.
Both wore fringe ON the sleeve, mine
meath the cuff did creep.
! Hers was of costly lace-full four I'm
gers deep.
| J quoted from the poem I'm q manner
Child-like bland;
Said I'D rather live iu Bohemia than "a
any other land
! And she said her circle was filed witt
f0ibles fair,
! Where the pace is always the swifJes
none other than Vanity Fair
She had tired of the tawdry and tiusel
tired of the heyIey and din,
And l3nged for that one touch of ma
ture chat makes the whole w0rl,
kim
was "a bit uu iu thoaTics. could tain
of the passing show
! And as % Cuuyersali0ualist, the lady
wasn't slow,
And all the worlds cares were tiaes
just .ules light as air.
! To the ono who lived iu Bohemia. &c
the other from Vanity Fair
We got lost in the crowd at the exit
didn't ask her name.
! But + counted every day till another
| Wednesday came
! ] went carly took do. same seat as De
fore.
And turning my head in "a moment
saw the lady at the door
She too. Dad counted the hours, sh,
was quick to confess,
And "a little ponm garbed in lam
guaga's rarnst dress
! Quoted Pretty isn't 60? I know ON,
like that
It had served ON many occasions, and
7 had it pat
On tine wings went the drama, on time
kept mo- tab.
And when the play was over, he show
cd her tO her cab.
And what cared they Tor the ubblo, Ol
for the gamin's stare
The one who hailed from Bohemia. on
the other from Vanity Fair
Now who would dream these meetings
with mon ami were "a sin.
Though the ice along that road. / fear.
was sometimes mighty thin2
So one day mp and told her told her
'tWOuldn't do