Page:Poetry, a magazine of verse, Volume 7 (October 1915-March 1916).djvu/47

The Day Before the Wedding :Why came you not last night to me?
 * I wonder! But of course
 * Maybe you had no horse!
 * Maybe you lost your way!
 * Your mother made you stay?

Her lover replies:
 * I had the horse and the way I knew,
 * And my mother kept me not from you.


 * But my youngest sister loves you not.
 * She hid my saddle in some strange spot.


 * My oldest sister sought and found—
 * Swift on my horse's back 'twas bound.


 * She whispered, "Try and get there soon,
 * Riding along by the light o' the moon!


 * "In body brave keep a good head,
 * Brother o' mine," she laughing said.


 * "In Sweetheart Land there's much to learn
 * The road has many a curve and turn.


 * "Don't lose your horse, don't go astray!
 * Ride—ere yet dawns your wedding day."

Florence Randal Livesay