Show GEMS IN VERSE The Kites An ocean by no jmrtal seen Divides two lands that mortals view The one has shores of shining green t > The other shining shores of blue And shining on the waves between Swing ships with sails ef every hue And ships are launching from the green And ships are anchored by the blue Men cal them toyS > s but dreamers dare To To dreamers on y dreams arc true name them ships that leave the fair Green shores for fairer shores of blue o fairy fleet of mingled sheen I My truant heart sails on with you Though loving well the shores of green Yet longing l for the shores of blue From the Bivouac A Lovers Lament Where glows a rose as fair With tinted hue so rare son thy cheek What ii ofile stern divine Can eWrequalthine So purely Greek What lily bared is breast To give at thy request < A brow so fair Whence came thpse raven locks Whose silken softness mocks The balmy air v Who tiight those swimming e eB To utter loving lies eyes f o hearts that burn Where leirued that form to fade And lon arms evade Of those who yearn Whence caught thy rubylips There defect silver trip OV r pebbles pearl Whew m i upon the earth Unwitting Cupids birth So fair a girl I look upon thy face But its Madusa grace Turns heart to stone I I love but I know not why II Yet must I fill I die And love alone Solitaire Patience Yes thats the womans game The dull delight solitude Where rank on rank sne strives to frame And speech or laughter neer intrude Night after night beside the fire When evenings lonely lamp is lit Oppressed with thoughts that vex and tire Among the cards her fingers flit The womans game I On some poor king The sequence of her play is built The queen comes after hapless thing The next the knave with grinning guilt Then all her treasures one by one Are thrown away to swell the pile The last and least when that is done Begin again the night beguile A womans game to sit and wait Build und rebuild though fate destroy Shuille the cards for soon or late There comes an end to grief and joy A man may fight or sow or reap Divide the se + sor traverse earth She can but I drudge or pray or weep What are her life and loving worth She sits there when the day is dead Lonely and listless Do you dare Deny when all is done and said 4 That womans game is solitaire from Harpers Mater They Soy If Our Beloved Dead They Hay if our beloved dead Shouid seek the old familiar place Some Granger would be there Instead And they would find no welcome free I can not tell how it might be In other homes but tnis I know Could my lost < iarlln come to me That she would never find it so Ofttimes the flowers have conic and Qfttiuics the winter Undo have blown gone The wile her peaceful rest went on tad I have learned to hve alone Have slowly leaned from diy to day 11 all life s > lasts to bear my part But whether gray or whetner gay I hide her memory in my heart Fond faithful loc has blest my way And fri nls are rouu i me true and tried They have their placebut hers todiy Is empty as the day she died How would I spring with bated breath And joy too ueen f word or sin To tike my darling home trom death And once again to call her mine I dare not dream the b Jsstnl dream It fills my heart with wild unrest Where yonder told wnite marbles gleam Sue still must slumberGod knows best But this I = now that ths who say Our best beloved would find no place Have never hungered every riar Through years a d year fur use swet face From the Tray 1 liie At Midnight The room is cold and dark to night The hie is low Why come yon you who love the light lo moaJr mesa I pray you leave me now alone You worked yo tr wit < And turned my beam to frozen stone Why haunt me still I got me to this empty place I shut the door Yet through the dark I tee your face Just as of yore The old smile curves your lips to night Your deep eyes glow With that o d gleam that made them bright So long ago I listen do I hear rouroue Tne silence thrill Why come you I would be alone Why vex me still What Would yoirtbat we reembrace We two once more Are these 5 our tears tbat wet soy face Just as b Lrc You lef tn seek sime new delight Yet yoart irs > flow What sorrow brings you back tonight Sha11I not Know I w ill not let you grieve aone ThenightischJl Though love is deal and htfpe has fiown I iity livesstill How silent is the empty spv e Dreamed I once more Henceforth against your haunting face I bar the door I roi Jfarptrtt Hagazine The Too lrui h TiibiSganor He calleth for his L ulv Lose The lanterns are Fhiiiiu my loc mj ogee Away to the slide lets te josrgins For a rule I am pining my duct Sty iv And ic brought out my little tobv + m So put on your blanket coat quick as may bend be-nd come to the slide and toboggan with me Come ride on my little toboggan The north wind is blowing my love mj dove It is splendid tobogganing weather g o let us be going my dove my loge And slide and toboggan together O h hasten my peerlessone off let us jag led dash down the slide on my little tobog Dash down on my little toboggan They sally forth and reach the slide U last off were whizzinc my love my d nc > And down the steep yids we arc dashing lear the air pass us Czzintrrm dove mj love As on we go slashing and rr n 11 inV Were nearing the bottom aiu ve me there r > But Wheres my tobosgan and where are I you dear v t Wheres my love and my little toboggan Emerges from a Snow heap and wildly around gazes What can have occurred With my love my dove something I must have collided I must have been flurried mv dove my love And must have unskillfully My ve > iele guided made from the bark My little of a log toboggan little my tobog But where the deuce is my toboggan Ah now I spy you my love my dove But who in the mischiefs Who walks thit teller so close by you my love m dOve mv Its that brute of a clert that teller Ahl wo jog me unhappy now homeward For my love I havelost and my little tobog Yes all smashed is my little toboggan MORAL Young slide fellows give ear ere you go to the With your grrllearn learn to steer for a duffer No Your la ly can care for and if you cant guide II obougdn youll certain y suffer I As hero my above whoa unski Humes cost s Him the loss of his girl and beside h her h e OKI He lost ah his littlo toboggan Montreal Star |