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Identifier: newenglandmagazi1891bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ong life surely some good has seen? Few, few and evil my days havebeen. I pity, neighbor, your lonely plightAnd oftentimes in the chill midnightFve seen your wakeful candle alight,— His eyes are glittering now, andbright,—Lonely? Oh no ! If you could but seeThose who at midnight come tome 1 You call it my house, it is not so,It is theirs, the dead of long ago !Still it is theirs, and above, below.Over the house they wandering go.O they call me queer, and a little out,But Ive seen strange sights, oh nodoubt, no doubt. Those of my race, I have seen them all.And one there is stern, and dark, and tall.Look ! there is his picture on the wall !Ou his cheek the mark of a British ball;As an elder, godly, a man of prayer,As a soldier, he dared what few may dare. I know her footfall upon the stair !And the scent of her rolled and pow-dered hair ; I see her sitting erect and fair,Yonder, in that old fiddle-backed chair;A famous beauty, a toasted belleWas my great-grandmother, Ive heard tell.
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Oft when the storm with gusty rushes,At my door and window, shoves and pushes.Standing under the lilac bushes,Molly the witch, the lightning flashes, But she stays outside, she never comes in,And she curses all of our kith and kin. OUR NEIGHBOR. 735

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