Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-16

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On the grass the moonlight shone;
seeing Nellie home
that sweet chorus which all the lads and lassies of
twenty-five years ago were singing. The pulse of
memory quckened and throbbed in him. He
himself and his sweetheart strolling homeward from
Perkins dance down the Pike and the girl beside
him had the same eyes as those of the portrait on
the wall, and the shining, and they were
singing that same sweet song that the girl in the
next singing. And now back a little way
behind them were George Jones and Hattie Sinclair,
and they too took up the refrain:
In the sky the bright glittered
On the grass the moonlight shone-
and the other couples beyond them joined their voices
till for mile down the Pike came the melody OF
happy hearts:
When saw sweet Nellie home
Forgotten stocks and bonds. bulls and
bears; for MacClurg was young once more, and the
katydids were piping under the August moon. And
still the young voice in the music room sang on;
and now the praises of Little Maggie May" were
heard by the listening
The flowers fair,
The birds sang blthe and gay
l first saw Maggie May
Oh how loved her none can tell!
My little Maggie May
MacCurg unconsciousy hunmed bit of the
air. for it breath from the past. And then
he sitting in the paror of the big white house
in Piousvie and girl in blue muslin gown was
singing this song for him again. 1t was
twilight; the windows were open, and the odors OF
lilacs and volets hOated in from the garden; and
the eyes of the girl as blue her gown. look
ing into his with the loveight that shines only
when one is eighteen: and the eyes of the girl in
the blue muslin were the eyes of the woman of the
portrait on the wall
"Oh, how loved her, can tell! whispered
MacClurg, while the voice in the music room sang
on. And Sweet Belle Malone" of tender
memory the singers lips
Wait for a Heavens gate.
Sweet Belle Malone
sang Beatrx and having finished this ballad she
then changed to Juanta," the immortal
Soft DER the mountain
Lingering falls the southern moon
crooned the fair girl and again her father the
moonlight falling the mountain that guarded
his little cottage among the Alleghenies. Again he
the flower beds and pink laurel in the front
yard. Once more he smelled the wild honeysuckle
and clematis creeping the veranda where he
was sitting with his young wife and the light of the
moon her golden hair and they both sang:
Juanita. ask thy soul if we should part
the old song that other lovers had sung before
and others will again, long as lovers are young
and the witchery of moonlight descends to earth
THE song in the music ceased, and Beatrix
entered the library With a start her father
back from the cottage amid the mountains.
She seated herself footstOol at his feet. Il
singing some songs of mama found to-day, she
remarked.
"Yes, remember them, said MacClurg huskily.
served his daughter
There anyone her equal said Mac
Clurg.
II expect you and very happy in
your cottage in the Aleghenes:
"No else so happy replied her
father.
Il suppose there is beautiful mountain scenery
in Alaska?"
"Er-yes-I don't know" said MacClurg feebly.
Il wish l could go to Alaska with Jack and be
happy just you and mama were in the Allie
ghenies! whispered the girl
But that would be very different matter,
Trixy Your mother married me-" and MacClurg
Walls