Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1919 — IF HE CAME NOW [ARTICLE]

IF HE CAME NOW

If he came now! My haact, .would .Jbe like a once quiet street. Hung with gay lanterns on a fete night, wild With singing! And my heart would be » Child • Sleepily to a Jdag, then flinging Sleep from it, springing . Out of the night, into the world again, And finding that its toys were all once more • ’ . • . There where it left them, waiting on the st? Toyjrie played with again. My heart would be An opened book fitted full with witchery. Filled, too,-with pain. An opened book that had been left too long Upon a dusty shelf. It would be a song too, Opening under the moon, and shivering at the dew. But liking it. And it’ would be a flame, Red In the night. I used to be glad when he came, But not so very glad—because I thought That I would always have him. Then war caught Him up from me. and bore him out To be where danger is; and killed my doubt, .' .. My hesitation and half fears. Ah, now I would run to welcome him, if he came now,! —Ma r yCnraly n -Davis,,—in Good ■ Housekeeping.