The Writings in Prose And Verse of Eugene Field: the Holy Cross, And Other Tales
The Writings in Prose And Verse of Eugene Field: the Holy Cross, And Other Tales
Eugene Field, Roswell Martin Field, Horace
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If thou couldst speak, if that tongue of thine could be loosed, what would it say of those who, forgetful of their souls, sink lower than the soulless brutes! Better it is thou canst not speak ; the an- guish in thine eyes, the despair in thy honest »55 Digitized by LjOOQ lC THE HOLY CROSS heart, the fear, the awful fear in thy mother breast, — what tongue could utter them ? Adown the road she galloped, — the same road she had traversed, perhaps, a thousand times before, yet it was so changed n...ow she hardly knew it. Twenty-four hours had ruthlessly levelled the noble trees, the hedgerows, and the fields of grain. Twenty- four hours of battle had done all this and more. In all those ghastly hours, one thought had haunted FSlice; one thought alone, — the thought of Petit-Poulain ! She pictured him tied in that far-away stall, wondering why she did not come. He was hungry, she knew; her dugs were full of milk and they pained her; how sweet would be her relief when her Petit-Poulain broke his long fast.
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