CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1901-03-21

saw you By. It is you alone who ea1
mike sunlight oft
This read yesterday has lain on my
mind since as true and altogether beau
tifui, with the beauty of major. not Of
minor. poetry. though it was a minor
poet who wrote It. 1t is of a wood
where Apollo has gone in quest Of his
beloved. and she Is not yet to be found:
Here each branch
| Swsyed With . glitter all its crowded leaves
| And brushed the soft divine hair touching tAsn
| In runaed clusters. -
Suddenly the moon
6snoothed heIself out Of yapor drift and maAs
/ The deep night full Of pleasure in the eye
| OF her sweet motion. Not alone she came
Leading the Hzrlight with her like song.
And not = BID Of all that undergrowth
But crisped md tinzled out ardent edge
/ As the light stepped 1t, over ~nosr massed leaves
The portals Of ilimitable steep
Faded In heaven
That Is love In its moonrise. not its
sunrise. stage. yet you see. beloved.
! how IL takes possession Of its dark
world. quite as fully rs tbe-brighier
sunlight could do. And IL | speak of
! doubts. / mean no twilight and no
suspicious, nor by darkness do I mean
any unhappiness.
starlight with her like a soug. Am 1
not happy enough to be patiently yours
before you know IL? Coed things
which are to be. before they happen
are already true. Nothing Is SO true
as you are. except my love for you and
yours for ne. Geod night. good night.
Sleep well. beloved. and wake.
Q.
Beloved-I heard somebody yester-
day speak OF you rs charming" and l
began wondering to myself was that
the word which could ever have cover
ed my thoughts Of you l do not know
whether you ever charmed me. except
in the sense of charming which means
magic and spell binding. That you did
from the beginning, dearest But
think I held you at first In too much
awe to discover charm In you. and at
last knew you too much TO the depths
to name you by n word so lightly used
for the surface Of things. Yet now 4
charm In you. which is not all you. hut
just part of you. comes to light. when
I see you wondering whether you are
really loved or whether. beloved.
only like you rather well.
w ftl. you u< ~ Guar
am helpless and can do nothing. moth
ing. but pray for the blue moon to rise
and love you little better because you
have some of that divine foolishn-ss
which strikes the very wise ones of
earth and makes them kin TO weaker
mortais who otherwise might miss
their charm" altogether.
Truly. beloved. IL ! am happy. II Is
because ! sm also your most patiently
loving.
Beloyed-The certainty which I have
DOW that you love me so flls all my
thoughts I cannot understand you be-
Ing In any doubt on your side. What
must I do that do not do to show
giadness when we meet and sorrow
when we have TO party ! am sure that
/ make no pretense or disguise except
that ! do not stand and wiring my
hands before all the world and cry,
Don't gor' which has sometimes been
in my mind TO be kept not said.
Indeed think SO much OF you, dear.
that believe some day. II you do your
part. you will only have to look up
from your books to ind the standing.
n you did. would you still be In doubt
whether loved your
oh. II any apparitiou OF me ever goes
to you. all my thoughts viii surely look
truthfully out OF its eyes, and even you
viii read what is there Mt last.
Beloved. kiss your blind eyes and
love them the better for all their un-
readiness to see that am already their
slave. Not day now but I think
~
uncertainty from hour TO hour.
love you You love me. A mist OF
blessing swims over my eyes as | write
the words I'LL they become one and the
same thing. can no longer divide
their meaning in my mind. Amen
There Is no need that should.
Beloved-I have not written TO you
for quite a long time. All. could not.
I have nothing now TO say. | think
could very easily die OF this great hap
piness, SO certainly do you love me.
Just n breath more of IL and should
be gone.
Goodby. dearest. and goodby and
goodbyi ir you want letters from me
now, you must ask for them. That the
earth contains us both and that we love
each other is about all that have
mind enough to take I'm. do not think
l can love you more than l do. You
are no longer my dream. but my great
waking thought. | am waiting for no
blue moonrisc now. My heart has not
a wish which you do not fulfill l owe
you my whole life aud for any good to
you must pay II out TO the last far
thing and still feel myself your debtor
oh. beloved. l am most poor and most
rich when think OF your love. Good