Sudden presence and 'Hello!'"

"Faithful Simon, weak and starving,
Groaned and fell beneath his pack"

"Resting calm in fancied safety
Sat the elder MacIntyre"

"Once again the twisted branches
Of the lone and friendly tree"

"Fiercer with each flying moment
Drove the scorching blasts of death"

"Standing there, a pictured goddess
Sketched against a lowering storm"

"But, instead, I shot, to scare him,
All the buttons off his coat"




BILLY'S REVERY


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No use talking, it's perplexing,
Everything don't look the same;