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| I DIDN’T do you know how glad ns was | |
| To have you come and camp below on our land. | |
| I promised myself to acquire down some day | |
| And see the way you lived, yet I don’t know! | |
| With a houseful of hungry males to feed | 5 |
| I assumption: v you’d find…. It appears to me | |
| I can’t express my feelings any more | |
| Than I deserve to raise my voice or want to lift | |
| My hand (oh, I deserve to lift it when I have to). | |
| Did ever you feeling so? i hope girlfriend never. | 10 |
| It’s obtained so i don’t even know because that sure | |
| Whether i am glad, sorry, or anything. | |
| There’s nothing but a voice-like left inside | |
| That appears to tell me how I should feel, | |
| And would feel if ns wasn’t every gone wrong. | 15 |
| You take it the lake. Ns look and also look in ~ it. | |
| I view it’s a fair, pretty sheet of water. | |
| I stand and make myself repeat out loud | |
| The advantages it has, therefore long and narrow, | |
| Like a deep item of part old running river | 20 |
| Cut quick off in ~ both ends. That lies 5 miles | |
| Straight away through the hill notch | |
| From the sink home window where i wash the plates, | |
| And every our storms come up toward the house, | |
| Drawing the sluggish waves whiter and also whiter and also whiter. | 25 |
| It took my mind turn off doughnuts and soda biscuit | |
| To action outdoors and also take the water dazzle | |
| A clear morning, or take it the climbing wind | |
| About mine face and also body and through my wrapper, | |
| When a storm threatened from the Dragon’s Den, | 30 |
| And a cold chilled shivered across the lake. | |
| I watch it’s a fair, pretty paper of water, | |
| Our Willoughby! exactly how did friend hear of it? | |
| I expect, though, everyone’s heard the it. | |
| In a book about ferns? hear to that! | 35 |
| You permit things much more like feathers regulate | |
| Your going and also coming. And also you prefer it here? | |
| I can see how you might. But I don’t know! | |
| It would be various if an ext people came, | |
| For climate there would certainly be business. Together it is, | 40 |
| The cottages Len built, sometimes we rental them, | |
| Sometimes us don’t. We’ve a good piece that shore | |
| That should be worth something, and also may yet. | |
| But ns don’t count on the as lot as Len. | |
| He watch on the bright side of everything, | 45 |
| Including me. He thinks I’ll be every right | |
| With doctoring. However it’s no medicine— | |
| Lowe is the just doctor’s dared to say so— | |
| It’s remainder I want—there, I have said the out— | |
| From food preparation meals because that hungry rental men | 50 |
| And washing dishes after them—from doing | |
| Things over and also over that simply won’t remain done. | |
| By an excellent rights ns ought no to have actually so much | |
| Put top top me, however there appears no other way. | |
| Len claims one stable pull an ext ought to carry out it. | 55 |
| He claims the best means out is constantly through. | |
| And i agree come that, or in so far | |
| As that I can see no way out but through— | |
| Leastways because that me—and then they’ll it is in convinced. | |
| It’s no that Len don’t want the finest for me. | 60 |
| It was his plan our moving over in | |
| Beside the lake from wherein that work I showed you | |
| We used to live—ten mile from anywhere. | |
| We didn’t readjust without part sacrifice, | |
| But Len went in ~ it to make up the loss. | 65 |
| His work’s a man’s, that course, from sunlight to sun, | |
| But that works when he works as hard as i do— | |
| Though there’s little profit in comparisons. | |
| (Women and also men will certainly make them every the same.) | |
| But work ain’t all. Len undertakes also much. | 70 |
| He’s into every little thing in town. This year | |
| It’s highways, and he’s got too countless men | |
| Around him come look after the make waste. | |
| They take benefit of him shamefully, | |
| And proud, too, that themselves because that doing so. | 75 |
| We have four here to board, good good-for-nothings, | |
| Sprawling around the kitchen through their talk | |
| While I fry their bacon. Much they care! | |
| No an ext put the end in what they execute or say | |
| Than if i wasn’t in the room at all. | 80 |
| Coming and also going all the time, lock are: | |
| I don’t discover what your names are, permit alone | |
| Their characters, or even if it is they room safe | |
| To have inside the house with doors unlocked. | |
| I’m not afraid of them, though, if they’re not | 85 |
| Afraid of me. There’s two can play at that. | |
| I have my fancies: it runs in the family. | |
| My father’s brothers wasn’t right. They maintained him | |
| Locked up for years ago there in ~ the old farm. | |
| I’ve to be away once—yes, I’ve been away. | 90 |
| The State Asylum. Ns was prejudiced; | |
| I wouldn’t have sent anyone of mine there; | |
| You recognize the old idea—the just asylum | |
| Was the poorhouse, and those who can afford, | |
| Rather 보다 send their folks to together a place, | 95 |
| Kept them at home; and also it go seem an ext human. | |
| But it’s no so: the place is the asylum. | |
| There they have actually every means proper to execute with, | |
| And girlfriend aren’t darkening other people’s lives— | |
| Worse than no good to them, and also they no good | 100 |
| To girlfriend in your condition; friend can’t know | |
| Affection or the want of the in the state. | |
| I’ve heard too much of the old-fashioned way. | |
| My father’s brother, that went mad rather young. | |
| Some believed he had actually been bitten by a dog, | 105 |
| Because his violence take it on the form | |
| Of delivering his pillow in his teeth; | |
| But it’s more likely he was crossed in love, | |
| Or for this reason the story goes. It was part girl. | |
| Anyway every he talked about was love. | 110 |
| They soon saw the would perform someone a mischief | |
| If he wa’n’t kept strict watch of, and also it ended | |
| In father’s building him a type of cage, | |
| Or room within a room, the hickory poles, | |
| Like stanchions in the barn, from floor to ceiling,— | 115 |
| A small passage every the means around. | |
| Anything they put in because that furniture | |
| He’d tear come pieces, also a bed to lie on. | |
| So they made the place comfortable v straw, | |
| Like a beast’s stall, to ease your consciences. | 120 |
| Of food they had to feed him without dishes. | |
| They tried to store him clothed, yet he paraded | |
| With his garments on his arm—all of his clothes. | |
| Cruel—it sounds. Ns ’spose they did the best | |
| They knew. And just as soon as he to be at the height, | 125 |
| Father and also mother married, and mother came, | |
| A bride, to help take care of such a creature, | |
| And accommodate she young life to his. | |
| That was what marrying father supposed to her. | |
| She had actually to lie and hear love points made dreadful | 130 |
| By his shouts in the night. He’d shout and also shout | |
| Until the toughness was shouted out of him, | |
| And his voice died down slowly from exhaustion. | |
| He’d pull his bars apart like bow and also bow-string, | |
| And allow them go and also make lock twang until | 135 |
| His hands had worn lock smooth as any ox-bow. | |
| And climate he’d crow together if he assumed that child’s play— | |
| The only fun that had. I’ve heard them say, though, | |
| They discovered a way to placed a protect against to it. | |
| He was prior to my time—I never ever saw him; | 140 |
| But the pen stayed precisely as the was | |
| There in the top chamber in the ell, | |
| A sort of catch-all full of attic clutter. | |
| I regularly think of the smooth hickory bars. | |
| It acquired so I would say—you know, half fooling— | 145 |
| “It’s time i took my turn upstairs in jail”— | |
| Just as you will certainly till it becomes a habit. | |
| No wonder ns was glad to acquire away. | |
| Mind you, ns waited till Len claimed the word. | |
| I didn’t want the blame if points went wrong. | 150 |
| I to be glad though, no end, when we relocated out, | |
| And i looked to be happy, and I was, | |
| As ns said, for a while—but ns don’t know! | |
| Somehow the readjust wore out like a prescription. | |
| And there’s much more to it than simply window-views | 155 |
| And life by a lake. I’m past such help— | |
| Unless Len took the notion, which that won’t, | |
| And i won’t ask him—it’s not sure enough. | |
| I ’spose I’ve got to walk the roadway I’m going: | |
| Other folks have actually to, and also why shouldn’t I? | 160 |
| I virtually think if I can do choose you, | |
| Drop everything and also live the end on the ground— | |
| But it could be, come night, ns shouldn’t favor it, | |
| Or a long rain. I must soon obtain enough, | |
| And it is in glad that a great roof overhead. | 165 |
| I’ve lain awake thinking of you, I’ll warrant, | |
| More 보다 you have yourself, several of these nights. | |
| The wonder to be the tents weren’t snatched away | |
| From end you together you place in her beds. | |
| I haven’t courage because that a risk like that. | 170 |
| Bless you, of course, you’re maintaining me native work, | |
| But the thing of that is, I need to be kept. | |
| There’s work enough to do—there’s constantly that; | |
| But behind’s behind. The worst the you deserve to do | |
| Is set me back a little much more behind. | 175 |
I sha’n’t catch up in this world, anyway.
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