Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1911 — ART THOU LONELY? [ARTICLE]

ART THOU LONELY?

Art thou lonely. Little Heart? If, because I think thou art. - I have Joy as will as sorrow. Do I play the selfish part? Nay, for I would have thee borrow Balm from my own lonely heart. * - '. - ’■» We are youthful, and we dream Things world-weary people deem Foolish, and If we should tell them They would frown—or smile!—and seem Only anxious to dispel them: ■ r But we two must have our dream. Tho’ they- cannot understand— Heart and soul and mind and hand, Busied, with important matters— -. Tho* for sympathy, a bland ' Tolerant smile they give, that shatters Dreams they do not understand. Then to me. Dear Lonely Heart, Bring thy dreams of life and art. And In dreaming them together Joy and peace we miss apart . * Will be ours in goodly mother; Come, Dear Little Lonely Heart! - - - —Shaemas O’Sheet.