The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-11

Would vice to virtue mould.
1t seemed that otir lives III that love
Comnlngled In n world unknown;
Saw only in the land above
The land where angels have their hofnc
TO lose thee, then, my dear Lucile,
Was simply out Of heaven to go;
Wlint matter then to me. Licile,
What happened In the land below.
For lifc to me was like n bell
Devoid OF beauty and OF sound;
Or like n seaman on the swell,
When all the rest but him are drowned.
Or, like n hero, dear Lucille,
CHANGING Oh his shattered bands,
He feels his cause is Just, Lucille,
And still stands, sword in hand.
And while no knows his cause Is lost,
And TINT his country stands appalled,.
He'd gladly meet n charging host,
And foremost leading, fighting fall.
And yot this hero, dear Lucille.
May see his country wrecked and lost;
And live on in the land, Lucille,
And nobly bow beneath his cross.
Yet while tho form may still 1.-Two on,
The inner man is surely dead;
For what Is man when hope is gone.
And nothing left to hope or dread?
Should both conspire. my dear Lucille.
'Gainst love truo and soldier brave,
That double cross. my dear Lucille.
Would make this earth q living grave.
And my man upon who's Ito
Rests the weight of this double CROSS.
Must be n man with misery rife,
For what Ia life when these are lost?
Y,,tt.
As memory looks backward now,
You did not tell me then. Lucille,
The cause that made you break your
VOW.
Had / but known the reason then
That robbed me OF my promised bride,
The powers of He'll and all earth's men
Could not have kept me from thy side.
You still remember. dear Lucille.
The tale they spun and passed around
To try and make you think. Lucille.
Another sweetheart 1 had found.
All! had you only come to me.
And told mo what those people said.
Two certain men well known to thee.
Would now be numbered with the dead.
But then you know full well. Lucille.
You simply, firmly, broke our tie;
And said no word to me, Lucille.
OF the cause or the reason why.
The blow came like n sudden shock.
Went booming through my heart and
brain,
Like n vessels shock upon n rock
In the midst of the ocean main.
The storm swept DER me then. Lucille.
Like ocean DER n sinking bark:
And when I tried to think. Lucille,
The entire world looked dark.
I saw your form, but saw not you,
A heavy mist came DER my eyes;
And though battle SCARED and n soldier
true.
I could only bow. goodbye.
But now you know too late, Lucille,
The shock that / then was given;
And that your loss to me. Lucille.
Was the loss OF an earthly heaven.
For years I tried to learn to say.
That the earth must still have charms;
But my heart would say, by night and
day,
What are they, to her clinging arms?
At last ! feel you know. Lucille.
That the world to me Is dead:
And live in the past with thee, Lucille,
With naught In the future to dread.
Your voice I hear In silent night.
And by day midst the city's roar;
Your face l SEQ In any light,
For It's stamped on my soul to the core.
I found out, but too late. Lucille.
That your love was true rs my own;
And ! think Of you now Lucille,
AS my wife in the spirit home.
A homo far away In the land above.
Where we know by the rules OF fate.
The dead heart sends it's spirit love
To roam with its love spirit mate.
At night I always see. Lucille,
Our spirits standing side by side:
And they look as I gaze, Lucille,
Like n boy and his youthful bride.
I sometimes think II boundless love
Has commingled two hearts and soul,
Parted or earth and Joined above.
Are they youthful looking or old?
-Four hundred months have passed, Luz
cile.
Since o allowed a tale untrue
To crush mo In my youth, Lucille,
And then recoll and crush you. too.
Oh! where was then your woman's heart?
And why did Pride usurp It's throne?
Had you but spoken from your heart,
Our lives no misery had known.
But then it's past, you know. Lucille,
Death round us both hath often strayed:
And soon our tim must come, Lucille.
When in the silent ground we're laid.
Then all thnt's mortal there may rest.
But In that far-off land above
III clasp thy spirit to my breast.
And claim thee for eternal love.
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