Along the Trail Author:Richard Hovey Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Or should I lie with sinews fixed and shriek As dead men shriek and make no sound ? Should I See her gray eyes look love and hear her speak, And be all ... more »impotent to burst my shroud ? Will the dead never rise from where they lie ? Or will they never cease to think so loud ? Or is to know and not to be, to die? FORGIVEN " Despise me if you will. I have done you wrong, — Most grievous wrong, — but not the wrong you think. You deemed me strongest where I was not strong, And martyr where a scratch would make me shrink. Nor, false for truth's sake though I wrest my role, Am I one half so false as I am true ; And mine own truth has throttled my proud soul And cast it prostrate at the feet of you. I am most humble ; but my heart cries out For one last grace from you before we part ; — Though it give pain, to hear my tale throughout And — not forgive — but understand my heart. Therefore I bare my soul to you and tell The utter truth, though speaking so I seem But a reiterate anguish to compel, That in condemning you may not condemn You know not what, but me, me, me ! " — The whole I told then, act and impulse; I kept not Aught back that might reveal me to her soul: And she forgave, — but understood no jot LOVE AND CHANGE One Lmier Forever ? Ah, too vain to hope, my sweet, That love should linger when all else must die! No prayer can stay his wings, if he will fly, Nor longing lure him back to find our feet, Weeping for old disloyalties. The heat That glows in the uplifting of thine eye, Dims and grows cold ere yet the day pass by; Nor ever will the dusk of love repeat The dawn's pearl-rapture. Ay, it is the doom Of love that it must watch its own decay. Petal by petal from the voluptuous bloom Drops withering,...« less