 | The select poems of Dr. Thomas Dunn English (exclusive of the "Battle lyrics") |  |
THE BRIDE'S STORY.
When I was but a country lass, now fifteen years ago,
I lived where flowed the Overpeck through meadows wide and low;
There first, when skies were bending blue and blossoms blooming free,
I saw the ragged little boy who went to school with me.
I lived where flowed the Overpeck through meadows wide and low;
There first, when skies were bending blue and blossoms blooming free,
I saw the ragged little boy who went to school with me.
His homespun coat was frayed and worn, with patches covered o'er;
His hat—ah, such a hat as that was never seen before!
The boys and girls, when first he came, they shouted in their glee,
And jeered the little ragged boy who went to school with me.
His hat—ah, such a hat as that was never seen before!
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And jeered the little ragged boy who went to school with me.
His father was a laboring man, and mine was highly born;
Our people held both him and his in great contempt and scorn.
They said I should not stoop to own a playmate such as he,
The bright-eyed, ragged little boy who went to school with me.
Our people held both him and his in great contempt and scorn.
They said I should not stoop to own a playmate such as he,
The bright-eyed, ragged little boy who went to school with me.
For years they had forgotten him, but when again we met
His look, his voice, his gentle ways remained in memory yet;
They saw alone the man of mark, but I could only see
The bright-eyed, ragged little boy who went to school with me.
His look, his voice, his gentle ways remained in memory yet;
They saw alone the man of mark, but I could only see
The bright-eyed, ragged little boy who went to school with me.
He had remembered me, it seemed, as I remembered him;
Nor time, nor honors, in his mind, the cherished past could dim;
Young love had grown to older love, and so to-day, you see,
I wed the little ragged boy who went to school with me.
Nor time, nor honors, in his mind, the cherished past could dim;
Young love had grown to older love, and so to-day, you see,
I wed the little ragged boy who went to school with me.
| The select poems of Dr. Thomas Dunn English (exclusive of the "Battle lyrics") | |