Love's Lesson
Fragmentary verse recalls a night of loneliness and longing for a lost beloved. The speaker laments absence, denied affection, and a disrupted happiness, while recalling closeness and a pledge of devotion despite separation.
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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1899
Page
3
Fragmentary verse recalls a night of loneliness and longing for a lost beloved. The speaker laments absence, denied affection, and a disrupted happiness, while recalling closeness and a pledge of devotion despite separation.
A narrator details life on a harsh remote island working for the cruel Eugene Callan who bullies workers. After a storm, a rescue by fellow inmate Ned McKeown keeps the narrator alive. A letter reveals inheritance from Sir Bernard Cilad and a plan to return home, but Callan plots with a hidden acid trap to kill, which collapses when a kettle topples, saving the narrator. Cicely will meet him at Holyhead.
Tips on canning fruit warn against breaking cans during tiling and using a silver spoon to protect can bottoms. Dark storage preserves color and prolongs shelf life. Canned goods require clean cans new rubbers and perfect covers to stay intact. Also includes short jokes and exchanges about coaling stations and a navy.
A preacher uses Christ's line about straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel to critique modern worshipers who fuss over tiny sins while neglecting vast moral issues. He mocks pietistic scruples, urges humor in religion, condemns hypocrisy, and warns that time is tiny beside eternity.
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