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Show 0!0KiKHKKKitJ KS0HOHtH THE UNSOUGHT Br GRACE E. HALL SHE gits alone beside a dying fire, And sees her hopes to fleecy ashes go; Bids sad farewell to feminine desire For love and praise that other women wom-en know j The baby head she visions on her breast la but a sickening phantom, like the rest ; The little home she one-time planned, la fled, And mourned In silence, like the sacred dead. - She sees her Idol as In years long past She saw him, towering high among his kind; In agony she sees htm choose at last A painted doll, with neither heart nor mind; Beholds his home, where children are unknown, And knows his hopes, like hers, have sadly flown. In secret she has dared to call his name, To clasp him to her breast with ardent ard-ent word, Has e'en expressed, without blush of shame, The burning love no other ears have heard ; Has kissed the lips that only smiled, one day, And left her to her dreamt and ashes gray. ( Dodd, Mead A Company.) O |