| Show gbts and sows A Lenten Picture THE CONFESS lONALr Through the high windows fell tho nuns soft raH Making S a twilight In the dim old church Like summer sunset In a forest deep In the fur comers unformed aluutows lurked From out whose depths the forms of sculptured saints Stood forth with ghostly dlpincBs Qn tho j nails Old frescoes painted by a masters hand Of accnos niomtiiloua In tho Saviors life Soctn d In the shido to in the cllsinnco In y As If lliu night liaiJ oer Judcus plains II Spread hor soft mantle down Softened and dim Was all within the wallH avc only whore A ray of iullant Ihltl shot like a dart And with a glory bright beyond compare Fell on the sculptured form of Heavens Queen Lighting her features with a loveliness Moro than angelic M with love sublime Sho bent down oer tho babe within her inns A holy hush pervaded overythng Save where from out tho organ loft soft strains Won by caressing touch upon lliu koyu Crept like a perfume through th responsive re-sponsive nlr And died aWay among tho rafters high As If an angel In I he distance sang I At Marys altar Helen knolL and prayed Her hands before her clasped Helen the HIM Who to the world appeared so Innocent That none would doom the shadow oC a sin Had Ieor fallen cross her virgin soul And us the ray lit up Our IMotlinrs face It glancing foil upon her golden head Like a caiess and beaming down the folds t S Of her white robes lit up the altar there As With a halo falling from above With fervent heart and downcast eyes she prayed Asking the mother of the Crucified For strength divine that she might search 1 her soul For every sin In thought or dream or deed S Sho had committed slnco tho last she I knelt At the confessional that when again 1 Tho holy father nbsolutlon gave I No sin withhold should haXint hor stainless stain-less souljc Then rlslBJS0 I her feet with trembling S k < y 8tfroaPe t I Sheypai3ed behind the screen Ii < V The organ notes Still floated out upon the riulct air As wIth a face all radiant with delight I I On which a beauty not at all of earth But all divine was stamped she came once more And knelt at Clarys foot then slowly turned SAnd S-And from the church out In tho sunlight passelS passel-S Took It to Himself r I TlV said thai In Kdcn of old The womnn lwn < tempted the man To cat thus the storyIs told And so all our troubles began But bies her cleanheart she has paid Apennltydouble I think For never at all Is It said That sho tempted her husband to drink S Seetjing < Oer the furrows brown and bare Set the harrows going I Scatter then the feeds with care Sowing sowing bowing Sow thorn though the winds are chill 1 And tIle rain drops natter Sow them with a talfa a carp Scatter scatter scatter When tho flowers strew the plain Gentler winds a Ie i blowing Whon the leaves i appear again Green will bo your sflwfng Billowy will your brown fields be Beamy t all unbroken Ere tho autumn you will ace Of Its sheaves a token Ah no harvest can you reap 1 Rich and golden glowing I If you not In springtime keep Sowing stowing sowing S i t Sow then though Iho winds are chill And the rain drops patter Sow then with a faith a will Scatter scedB oh scatter S Au Kovoir I S They clasped each others hands and then They partsd As children they played as men Strong hearted Had stood together In storm and strife Had chared l the joys rind tho cares of life They parted twas a last goodbye Heart crushing f S c For one oPto eternity Was rushlntfr7 I S A sigh I murmured word a smothered groan And one was dead and ono was left alono Alone ho stood and gazed awhllo I I Low praying 5 And on tho dead face a soft smile SCtn1ccl playing wluutt matters It ho murmured Oh 5 my friend Your cold lips arulle then this Is not tho end 5 Know How It Would End On no account she qald severely fo the maiden ill her care Alloy a mnn so wrong tis clearly To klss you 1 declare S Around your waist his arm must never Allowed at all to be Juni keep them at u distance over lake pattern after mo The clrl hung dpwn her head demurely And then ho blushing nid It I should do your will Id surely JIke you be an old matTj I S S Eves and Zdens When Adam Wl no eholcehadhc j Of Momci there was duarthA Ho look Evn for his wife forJho The oijly Tvas on earth S 1 And GO forever slnco that day Ills sons have made believe Or told some woman anyway olio was his Only Eve Ana somo haveeven had thewhim I Ju heart been so unwise I I To dream one woman Voulcl for him I aialco earth a paiadl c > f I Bui as old Father Adam ho Has found out all too late I it was a dream md that twas sho i I > troin Eden rloscd the gate S A Lifes Story S Liskn Ill tell youmylllfoH one story All untold has II ever been Aly atop are slow and my head In hoary And yet and yet 1 will carry eon Down to the grave a love that hound mo And even beyond ittt crimp most fell Ard fet the touch of an arm around me Clasped there In love but whoso touch Is hell Hand thai was while and so soft carcrw Ing l S It touched the heart with an untold thrill SLips i S-Lips that vero sweet andan eve expressing ex-pressing u The deepest lovo I shall know until I upward glanceto the realms supernal And J deep down In tin darknesB there And HOP wllh regret and desire Infernal The love of the Inrealms of air Oh for tho vows i lhiU woro vorao than broken S Given received and pledged wllh life Spirits Immorlal of them token From luavon drawn to world of strife Plunged by I a wcrtknog myself despising The weakness of both and the crlmo of ono S A crime well fit for tho earths chastising chastis-ing i To a IhlnS hell when the deed was done 1 Loving still but the names unspoken Living a lie In the oyqaof all Taught how to smile with a heart halC broken S S Oer if I hope thatfr dead beyond recall Oh for a glance and a hands soft pressure pres-sure S For the strength to bear a nameless I bia meA me-A Joy It would be beyond earthly measure If Innocence would not share the shame The langlcd webof a life thai never This side the grave can jnlralghtcncd be A ucen regret that mtist last for ever Oh loved one Is fate for you for me7 And I sit alone with the shadows falling And my heart grows sickwith Its nameless name-less pain Back through the vcars lo your heart Us calling I I I Knowing full well it must call In vain Just heir Nature Of ribbon she purchased yard It Was all she had money to buy Yet the clerk who all day had worked hard S She made empty the shelves very nigh It was Saturday night up on Main And the clerk nearly fell where she stood From weariness hunger nnd pain But her secret prayers1 < dkl no good For a woman a woman will he If you thInk otherwise you are rash For her born curiosity Will go ten tlm r tho longlh of her cash What They Think Give us this day our dally bread They pray hut dont you think That many In their hearts instead Of bread alonomean drink i i A Springtime Ditty Out on the topmost branch he Is singing Never a leaf IB near him Liquid notes from his throat ho Is flinging fling-ing Hear him my little one hear him What is I ho singing and what Is he saying There on the bough of the applo tree swaying S Daffodil viOlet what arc you doing Why aro you now delaying Wlndii from the southland have come a wooing S This little ono ho Is Baying Calling tho lowers from where he is sleeping Hidden way down in the dark earths keeping T Pans the sun with a new warmth is smihnJ Willow puss small is your S number Queen rO1t Sour lovcr there no be guihi tug While you aro wrapped In slumber Winter fur back to the northland la failing Llstcnoh listen J lies singing lie a call ing I Peach bloom and purple Hag cnn you not hear me Snowflakes no longer arc flying Pcop now I pray from your snug beds and cheer me The winds In your absence aro sighing And oven lie clouds oft start wildly weeping weep-ing Bccauxo oh ye flowcrota no soundly youre sleeping Then when the daylight lo fading oh hear I him Sweetly tho flowers he Is calling Mingles Ills notes with the brooklet there near him S 5 In melody liquid tin falling Out on the apple bough singing and swaying sway-Ing S These are Iho words pet the bluebird is saylngr S S I Watching the Bars Adown the long green lane again In memory mem-ory I roam S That leads off to the pasluro land of the dear old farm at home The hint down which Iho catllo craze and where the young lalnbx play Whern llowerB bloom and singing birds their sWeetest sing nlway I tear rUraln tho bobolinks no noto there S Is that Jars S For lam lint a hnrefool and sit and watch the liars S An elm stands beside tho brook that through tlio meadow t ra HIts H-Its broad arms reaching oer tho lane JUKI where the water plays Beneath Ito rude old bridge on which Ive sat with rod and line And fished for chubs and nibbling roach of weariness no sign Till In the soft and azure sky appeared the evening stars And lust beyond tho opening was where 1 havo atclicd tho bars 1 f A row of lofly cherry trees runs from the orchard down SIn S-In springtime fair wllh blossoms while where birds luiglilhucd or brown Would build heir I nests and rear their I young 1vu watched them day by day Until the ficdgcllngs spread their wings for light and soared away And black squirrels when the fruit vas red came from the woods afar And dropped the cherries down to mo 5 5 whllo I would witch the bar Oft In the sultry afternoons from out the pasture land S Old Spotty up toward the brook would lend the lowing band The tinkle of her brazen bell the rwcct esl music made S It floalfjd to me where I sat beneath tho cherry shade Then Rose and Bess In whose foreheads S of rtd wer two whlto stars Would havoc play within Iho hayunices 1 walched the bars i Not often twas I played alono adown tho shadowy lane Or else to keep me at the bars they would have tried In vain A blueeyed sister with mo shared lie watching and the piny 1 And with her ever at my nldo time quickly 1 quick-ly I jwsscd awa S SwcelMary from New Ungland now Ive S wandered Oh8Q far < t S < SAnd S-And found that life I has jUcrncr tasks thin watching by thb bar And father sleeps upon tho hill our mother by l his sltleI Tls years my Mary sInce the day that you becamo a bride And strangeis own the dear old home and down the long green lane Tls doubtful Mary In thin life Aell over pass again Yet often as the season comcn T quite 5 forget lifes Hears 7 To be In dreams a barefoot boy and watch bcsldo the bars S |
