The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-07-18
WHY SATAN Is SAD
MARK QUINTRELL

they were standing by the river. lean
ing DER the tangled bank,
Where the waters through the lilies
played with many an idle prank.
As they dashed toward the ocean, there
to join the silver tide,
He a handsome, honest, bridegroom,
she a fair-faced. blue-eyed bride.
There they planned a golden future.
shared by love and Righteousness
Each to each their vows exchanging,
mingled with a soft caress;
He was thinking of her only, and the
love by her then told.
While her thoughts were intermfngled |
with a wealth of yellow gold.
On the hilltop, near the river. stood a |
cottage built for two. |
And the river seemed to whisper, That |
was built for me and you
Just beyond the little hilltop, waved |
the fields of golden grain,
And to him the future sailing seemed
one never ending plain.
But love is always born of ignorance.
business ne'er has met its fate,
And the sins that love will cover not
known until too late:
And the house that's built by wisdom,
does not know the cunning art
Love inscribes with gilded letters in
the chamber of the heart.
Then the years passed slowly onward.
Tom was working every day,
Striving only for his Mabel. with a
heart as blithe and gay
As it was beside the river, on their
happy wedding morn.
When they gazed upon the lilies, and
the early fields of corn:
Often to the winding river, Mabel wan
dered every day,
Dreaming, thinking of the city, and its
never-ending fray;
Of the life she oft had cherished, and
the love she dreamed was told.
Till the cottage stood mansion. and
the river turned to gold.
In every life some scene is changing,
from the good old fashioned way.
And the friends of now are different
from the friends of yesterday;
Man, with all his mighty forces, robs
the savage by his stealth,
And with thirst, and greed. and hunger,
lays aside his Wanted wealth;
But that wealth. by force he conquers,
oft is spent for guilty lust.
While the poor and needy pilgrim feeds
upon the ashen crust:
With his wealth and power to picture,
| aided. too, by 1attery's art,
| Man has learned to conquer woman,
just as sure as Cupid's dart
| SO at last one summer morning, as Ma
| bel stood beside the stream,
Down the river came a boatman she
| had seen within a dream:
!
| cool it looked within the glade.
So he turned in a the landing, just to
rest him in the shade;
There he told to silly Mabel all about
the city life,
And the joys and pleasures stored up
| for the busy rich mans wife:
OF the autos and the races, and the
gay-dressed fancy ball,
Till she sighed that rural home life
weren't worth living after all.
Day by day the meetings followed. un-
| derneath the oak trees shade,
Down beside the little river, where the
bubbles danced and played;
He would tell her oft how pretty, and
how pure and fair to see,
II she's only robed in satin, and rich
mans wife could be;
Mabel listened to the stories by the
rich mans lips there told,
OF the home that he could give her
and the wealth of yellow gold.
II she only left the cottage and the
farm behind the hill,
And her burly, farmer husband, for &
happier life to FILL
} Mabel listened, thinking, wondering
| nSf ha In
But at last to pleading yielded, sh.
stepped in his canoe;
Down the river then they drifted, t,
the station on the road,
+, Just in time to catch the Pullman a
the captain cried aboard"
1 Then the scene was changed to action
I. Mabefs dream had turned to life
And she stood there rObed in satin
!, posing as rich mans wife;
4 But with all the priceless grandeur
painted by the hand Of art,
t Oft her singing conscience told her o
the guilt within her heart
a Time rolled on his lonely pathway. an
!, before ten years had passed.
Mabel roamed the crowded city,
n broken-down aud pale outcast
= She had never learned the reason, unit
dl tndt lonely nOuF,
Why the rich man, with his richie:
n and his fiattery and his power.
q Could forget the old love story. whe
her beauty thus had gone,
+ Nor how few would ever know he
4 when from riches she was torn
Knew not till then how beauty chang
$ ed the human heart with ease,
: And made solemn vows and pledge
O like the down upon the breeze.
And the rich man in his mansion sa,
II her passing day by day,
: But some young and pretty woma
then would greet him in the wa
Mabel oft in times now vanished, a
y that stately mansion old,
II Greeted him upon the lawn, please
with thoughts of guilt and golt
l. But the time is coming to US, whe
with failing voice and breath.
Man must turn to meet his Make
n through the cruel gate Of dealt
!" So a last one eve the rich man. close
C his eyes mid scenes SO grand.
d And as he passed beyond the portal
Satan clasped him by the hand
# 'Ah, old fellow, long I've waite
IL watching every turn you've mad
n Since you foated down the river ju:
to rest beneath the shade:
n And I've longed, and wished, and wor
4 dered, ever since that fatal no,
When that woman yielded to you, VIII
9 / had not enough power
n a.