Heart Songs

<h2><SPAN name="HER_GOLD" id="HER_GOLD"></SPAN>Her Gold</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="ig">“I covet her gold, sir,” no farther I got,<br/></span> <span class="i2">His wrath down upon me so swiftly descended,<br/></span> <span class="i0">A gay fortune-hunter, a spendthrift, a sot,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Were names I was called before he had ended.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_192" id="page_192"></SPAN>{192}</span><br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="ig">“You covet her gold! Ah! no man with a heart<br/></span> <span class="i2">Would do such a thing&mdash;not even a pauper&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">With you on life’s journey my child shall not start<br/></span> <span class="i2">If counsel of mine, and warning, can stop her.”<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="ig">“I covet her gold, and, believe me,” I said,<br/></span> <span class="i2">“The honest fact will in no way surprise her,<br/></span> <span class="i0">I covet her gold, sir, <i>the gold on her head</i>,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Once it is mine you may call me a miser.”<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 />