Heart Songs

<h2><SPAN name="DESERTED" id="DESERTED"></SPAN>Deserted</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="letra">S</span>HE stood that night with a face so set,<br/></span> <span class="i2">So filled with bitterness and despair,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Closing my eyes, I can see her yet,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Sorrowful, broken, but passing fair.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Her eyes were fixed on the sky above,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Where stars were shining so soft and clear;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Did the ghosts of innocence and love<br/></span> <span class="i2">Steal out of the gloom and stand quite near?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">So young to quiver beneath such smart!<br/></span> <span class="i2">A fairer brow ’twould be hard to find&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">The pity of it! a broken heart,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And childhood lying so close behind.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I heard her whisper, “<span class="lftspc">’</span>Twas long ago<br/></span> <span class="i2">That I laughed for joy at the touch of morn,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Kneeled down and prayed in the light and glow&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">Ah me! I cry now&mdash;tempest-torn:<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_095" id="page_095"></SPAN>{95}</span><br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="ig">“‘Thank God for night, and the world asleep’&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">Their eyes pierce through me the long, long day&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Thank God for the darkness, soft and deep,<br/></span> <span class="i2">That folds me, and hides me quite away!”<br/></span></div> </div></div> <p class="c"><ANTIMG src="images/deco.png" width-obs="25" alt="[Decorative image unavailable.]" /></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />