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Show &oj P 15 AW I 8ho In away. I to nits alonb And lookii nbout tho empty room With hunrt ns heavy nn n atone, With oyoa that nro ilocp-not In gloom. Kach tiling la an ittm left It thoro. Her book with mnrkerit tho place Wlicro nlio stopped roadlnfr. Ab, tho car And loiiKlnff that In In his face. fill In nwny. Tlio sunllKlit ntrcamn In through tho window, and It makes A pattern of Hn glints and gleams Whrro throuith tho ahadowud spots It breaks. II seen tho rnuslo that nho nnnR Still opened, ready for hor hand And to bin heart there comes a panic That fow of us may understand. Bho Is away. And so he broods As strotiK mon brood, who feel the welKht Of nil tho soul's deep solitudes That come from out tho hands of fato. He llntnnn for hoi; step to fall And for tho rustlo of her train, Or for hor low, sweet volco to call, Hut listens nil the while In vnln. Sho Is nwny. And ha sits still, Ills weary chnek upon his pulm And nerves himself with nil his will To benr It bravely and bo calm, Hut thern are times when strontr men quull, When bravo men tremblo with their fonrn, ' When fortltudo nnd nrmness fall And ho must dread tho thing- that ncars. Bho In nwny. nut she'll return. And bo sits wrestling with his thought, For then ho knows that ho will learn What ho must pay for what sho's bought. Bho hits gone shopping that In nil For summer drcsseH, hats and shoos, nnd hosiery, nnd bnthtnr suits, nnd some embroidery, nnd somo ribbons, nnd a piece of that silk llko Mrs Jones got at such a bargain, nnd somo shtrtwalstn. nnd belts nnd ono or two other things, porhaps And thut'M tho reason sho's away W'ltllo ho watts for tho blow to fall Whon Ijo'U llnd what ho has to pay |