If you'd try--to--just explain.

[Illustration: "Standing there, a pictured goddess
Sketched against a lowering storm."]


38

"If you wouldn't stand there looking
With a face of livid white
Like the specter of the prairie
That I saw one horrid night,
Riding through the endless darkness
Like a being doomed from birth
Just to roam outside of heaven
And denied a place on earth.
Say one word to me! Speak, Nancy,
If you have a voice and live!
Tell the worst, e'en though you ask me
To be patient and forgive.
I will listen--I will suffer--
I will do the best I can;
Nancy, sweetheart! hear the pleading
Of a broken-hearted man,"


39

"See here, Billy! You gone crazy?
Charging like you got a fit?