MADISON CAWEIN

THE LYRIC LIBRARY

BOSTON Richard G Badger & Company (Incorporated) 1901

Copyright 1901 by Richard G Badger & Co. (Incorporated)

The poem herewith presented was first published some ten years ago in a volume entitled Days and Dreams. The original verses have been re-written throughout and extensively added to, making it comparatively a new poem.

LAKEVIEW PRESS, SOUTH FRAMINGHAM, MASS.

TO G. F. M. THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED IN MEMORY OF MANY DAYS.

[Pg 7]

[Pg 9]

ONE DAY AND ANOTHER

A Lyrical Eclogue

PART I

LATE SPRING

1

Outside her garden. He waits musing.

2

Dusk deepens. A whippoorwill calls.

3

He enters her garden, speaking dreamily:

4

She approaches, laughing. She speaks,—

HE

SHE

HE

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SHE

HE

SHE

HE

SHE

HE

5

She stands smiling at him. She speaks:

He speaks:

6

Moths flutter around them. She speaks:

7

Taking her hand, he says:

She roguishly:

8

Then, regarding him seriously, she continues:

9

Leaving the garden for the lane. He, with lightness of heart.

She, responding to his mood:

HE

SHE

10

He, suddenly and very earnestly:

[Pg 24]

11

She, musingly:

[Pg 25]

12

He, with conviction.

13

They enter the garden again.... She, somewhat pensively.

14

He, observing the various flowers around them:

15

She, seriously:

[Pg 29]

16

He, after a pause, lightly:

17

She, standing among the flowers:

18

He, at parting, as they proceed down the garden:

[Pg 33]

PART II

EARLY SUMMER

1

She delays, meditating. A rainy afternoon.

2

They meet. He speaks.

She speaks.

3

They meet again under the greenwood tree. He speaks:

4

Entering the skiff, she speaks:

5

He speaks, rowing.

She speaks.

He speaks.

6

She sings.

7

He speaks, letting the boat drift.

[Pg 45]

8

Landing, he sings.

She sings.

[Pg 46]

He speaks.

9

Homeward through flowers; she speaks:

10

He speaks, musingly.

11

She speaks, dreamily.

12

He laughs, wishing to dispel her seriousness:

13

She interrupts him, speaking impetuously:

14

Nearing home, he speaks.

15

At the gate. She speaks.

[Pg 53]

16

He, at parting:

[Pg 54]

PART III

LATE SUMMER

1

Musing he strolls among the quiet lanes by farm and field.

2

He is reminded of another day with her.

3

He enters the woods. He sits down despondently.

4

He proceeds in the direction of a stream.

[Pg 62]

5

He seats himself on a rock and gazes steadily into the stream.

6

Taking a letter from his pocket, he hurries away.

[Pg 70]

7

After the last meeting; the day following.

8

He walks aimlessly on.

9

He compares the present day with a past one.

10

He pauses before a deserted house by the roadside.

[Pg 77]

11

He proceeds on his way.

12

Among the twilight fields.

[Pg 79]

PART IV

LATE AUTUMN

1

Sick and sad, propped among pillows, she sits at her window.

2

She gazes out upon the dying garden.

[Pg 81]

3

She muses upon the past.

4

She takes up a book and reads.

5

She lays down the book.

6

She writes to him to come to her.

7

The wind rises; the trees are agitated.

8

She muses in the gathering twilight.

9

He enters. Taking her in his arms he speaks.

[Pg 92]

10

She smiles through her tears; holding his hands she speaks.

[Pg 95]

PART V

WINTER

1

In the silence of his room. After many days.

2

The bitterness of his bereavement speaks in him.

[Pg 97]

3

Her dead face seems to rise up before him.

4

He sinks into deep thought.

5

He arouses from his abstraction.

6

He looks from his window toward the sombre west.

7

He turns from the window, takes up a book and reads.

[Pg 104]

8

The storm is heard sounding wildly with wind and hail.

9

He sits by the slowly dying fire. The storm is heard with increased violence.

[Pg 109]

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