IRON JOHN . . . . TO BE CONTINUED. . . . .


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THE LADY S "YES" By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (A Love Poem).


"Yes", I answered you last night;
"No", this morning, sir, I say.
Colors seen by candle-light
Will not look the same by day.

When the viols played their best,
Lamps above and laughs below
LOVE ME sounded like a jest,
Fit for YES or fit for NO.

Call me false or call me free,
Vow, what ever light may shine,
No man on your face shall see
Any grief for change on mine.

Yet the sin is on us both;
Time to dance is not to woo:
Wooing light makes fickle troth
Scorn of ME recoils on YOU.

Learn to win a lady s faith
Nobly, as the thing is high,
Bravely as for life and death,
With a loyal gravity.

Lead her from the festive boards,
Point her to the starry skies,
Gaurd her, by your truthful words,
Pure from courtship s flatteries.

By your truth she shall be true,
Ever true as wives of yore;
And her YES, once said to you,
SHALL be Yes forever more.


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