Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-11-18
THE LOST WORDS OF LOVE.

Once upon time very cruel fairy,
pretty as the flowers. but wicked as the
serpents who hide in the grass ready TO
spring upon you. resolved to ayenge her
self upon all the people of a great coun-
try. Where was this country situated
In the mountain or in the plain, at the
shore of river or by the sea? This the
story does not tell Perhaps it was near
the kingdom where the dressmakers were
very skillful in adjoining the robes OF the
princesses with moons ard with stars
And what was the otTense from which
the fairy haze suffered? With regard to
this also the story is silent. Perhaps
they had omitted to offer up prayers to
her AT the baptism OF the kings daugh
ter. However this might be, it is GER
tain enough that the fairy was in great
rage.
She asked herself at first whether she
should devastate the country by sending
out the thousands OF spirits that served
her to set fire to all the palaces and all
the cottagcrs. or whether she should cause
all the llacs and all the roses to fade,
or whether she should turn all the young
girls into ugly old women. She could
have let loose all the four winds upon
the streets and laid low the houses and
trees. At her command fire-spittiEg
mountains would have buried the entire
land with burning lava and the sun
would have turned from its path SO as
lot to SHINE upon the accused city. But
she did still worse. Like thief who
lci5urely chooses the most precious Jew
els in case, she removed from the mem
DRY OF men and women the three divine
words:
Il love you!"
And having brought this affection. she
removed herself with a light smile on her
lips that would have been more hideous
than the church of the devil if she had
not had the most beautiful rosy lips in
all creation
At first the men and women only half
the wrong that was done them.
1t seemed to them that they lacked
but they did not know what.
The swcethearts that met in the evening
IN the eglantne lanes, the married couples
who talked contidingly to each other be-
hind closed windows and drawn curtains.
interrupted themselves and
looked at each other or embraced; they
telt, indeed, that they wanted to pro-
Rounce q certain customary phrase, but
they did not even have an idea of what
that phrase was. They were astonished,
uneasy, for they did not ask each other
any questions. for they did not know
what question to ask, so complete was
their forgetfulness of the precious word.
But they did not suffer very much as vet.
for they had the consolation of possess
ing so many other words that they could
whisper to each other, and of so many
,aresses.
Alas! 1t was not long before they
we're seized with profound melancholy. |
Il was in vain that they adored each |
jther, that they called each other by the !
.enderest names, and talhe the sweet |
st language. 1t was not enough TO de- |
'lare that all the bliss lay in their kisses;
o swear that they We're ready to die. he |
or her and she for him; to call each |
1ther: My soul! my flame! my dream!" |
They instinctively felt the need of saying !
md hearing another word more exquisite |
han all other words, and with the bitter |
memory of the ecstacy that was CON
aimed III this word came the anguish of |
never being able to utter or to hear it |
my more.
Quarrels followed in the wake of this
distress, Judging mis- happ,ness inccm.
'lete on account of the lvowal that was
icnccforth denied to the most ardent lips,
he lover demanded from her and She
rom him Just the thing which neither
he one nor the other could give. without !
'uaer knowing what or being able 20 |
anne It, They accused each other of |
'oblneNs, OF perlidy, not believing in the !
ehdernesS which WAS not expressed as |
hey desired
thus the sWeethearts soon ceased to |
ave their rendezvous in the lanes where |
he eglanUncs grew, and even after the !
windows were closed the conjugal cham |
'er~ heard only dry conversations in easy |
hairs that were never brought near each |
'ther Can there he Joy without love? |
L the country which had incurred the /.
latrcd of the fairy had been ruined by
VAR. or devastated by pestilence. it could |
cot have been as desolate. as mournfuI, /
- torlorn, a. it had become on account |
# the three forgotten words.
III.
There lived in this country poet
whose plight was even more ritiful than
hat OF the rest. 1t was not because.
having a beautiful sweetheart. he was
n despair for not being able to say and
10 hear the stolen word. He had no
sweetheart. for he was too much in love
With 'hc muse. But it was because he
VAS unable to finish poem which he had /
Je9un the daV before the wicked fairy,
mad accomplished her ycugearce. And /
Why! Because it Just happened that the /
'oem was to wind mp with Il love vou!" /
md 1t was impossible to end it in any
other way.
The poet struck his brow. took his head /
jetween his hands. and asked himself. /
Have | gone mad." He was certain. /
however, that he had found the words (
Dat were to precede the last point OF ex |
'iamation before he had commenced to
write the stanza. The proof that he had /
found these words was that the rhyme
with which they were to 70. and which |