. Home ballads . it does nt seem so, now ! Joel, it came so, then ! — and her voice was thick with tears : A hope for a single day, and a bitter shame for years ! He snapped the ribbon of bark ; he turned from the hickory-tree :Jane, look me once in the face, and say that you thought of me! She looked, and feebly laughed : Its a comfort to know the truth,Though the chance was thrown away in the blind mistake of youth. And a greater comfort, Jane, he said, with a tender smile,To find the chance you have lost, and keep it a little while. She rose as he spake the words : the petted heifer thrustH
. Home ballads . it does nt seem so, now ! Joel, it came so, then ! — and her voice was thick with tears : A hope for a single day, and a bitter shame for years ! He snapped the ribbon of bark ; he turned from the hickory-tree :Jane, look me once in the face, and say that you thought of me! She looked, and feebly laughed : Its a comfort to know the truth,Though the chance was thrown away in the blind mistake of youth. And a greater comfort, Jane, he said, with a tender smile,To find the chance you have lost, and keep it a little while. She rose as he spake the words : the petted heifer thrustHer muzzle between the twain, with an animals strange mistrustBut over the creatures neck he drew her to his breast :A horse is never so old but it pulls with another best! JANE REED. 51 Its enough to know, she said ; to remember, not forget ! Nay, nay : for the rest of life we 11 pay each others debt ! She had no will to resist, so kindly was she drawn,And she sadly said, at last, But what will become of John ?.
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