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About Talent news. (Talent, Or.) 1892-1894 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1894)
CONTENTED JIM. THE OLD Hol'SE. In through the j -»rch and up the silent Everything pleased our neighbor Jim. stair. When it rained Little is changed, I know so well the He never complained, ways; But said wet weather suited him. Here the dead came to meet me; it was there ‘‘There never is to<> much ra»n for r io, The drcam was dreamed in unforgotten And this is something like,” said he. days. When earth was dry as a powder mill. He did not sigh But who is this hurries on before, Because it was drv, A flitting shade the brooding shades among? • But if he couhl have his w ill She turned 1 saw her face 0 God? it It would be hischief supreme delight wore To live where the sun shone day ar.d I The face I used to wear when I was night. young. When winter came, with its snow and I thought my spirit and my heirt were ice, tamed He did not scold To deadness; dead the pangs that Because it was cold, agonize. But said: “Now this is real nice; The (»Id grief springs to choke me—I am H ever from home I’m forced to go, ' shamed 1’11 move up north with the Esqui Before that little ghost with eager eyes. mau.” A cyclone whirled along ¡Is track; <)h, turn away, let her not sec, not know ’ I , And did him harm How should she bear it, how should It broke his arm, understand? And stripped the coat from off his buck: Oh, hasten down the stairway, haste and go, r>“And I would give another limb j And leave her dreaming in the silent To see such a blow again,’’said Jim. land. i And w hen at length his years were t< hl — Amy Levy. And his Ixxly bent, /. And his strength all spent, And Jim was very ^eak and old: » “I long have wanted to know,” he sa id, THE FOOT FITTER S ‘ Jlow it feel« to die” and Jim was dead, AND The angel of- death had summoned him SHOE HOSPITAL, To heaven or well, CAN BE FOUND NEXT D(>0H TO I cannot tell; But 1 knew that theclimate suited Jim ! UII.MMIVS ML IT JIIIIHT. And cold or hot, it mattered not MEDFORD. • • OREGON Il to him the long-sought spot. O. F. I’cal re. - I » TAYLER r ' * /