Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1930, Page 38

THE EVENING STORY One of World-Famous Works of Literature Maud Muller. BY JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. (John Greenleaf Whlr:;l’fl. 1807-1892. was es. an American poet, ai of “Snowbound” and other popular Vi Maud Muller, on a Summer's day, raked the meadow sweet with hay. Be- neath her torn hat glowed the wealth of simple beauty and rustic health. Singing, she wrought, and her merry glee the mockingbird echoed from his tree. But, when she glanced to the far-off town, white from its hillslope looking down, the sweet song died, and a vague unrest and a nameless longing filled her breast. A wish, that she hardly dared to own, Tor something better than she had —nown. The judge rode slowly down the lane, smoothing his horse’s chest- nut mane, He drew his bridle in the shade of the apple trees to greet the maid, and ask & draft from the spring that flowed through the meadow across the road. She stooped where the cool spring bubbled up, and filled for him her small tin cup. And blushed as she gave it, looking down on her feet so bare, and her tattered gown. “Thanks!" said the jidge; “a sweeter draft from a fairer hand was never qudtfed.” He spoke of the grass and flowers and trees, of the singing birds and the hum- ming bees; then talked of the haying, and wondered whether the cloud in the west would bring foul weather. ‘And Maud fosgot her briar-torn gown, | and her ceful ankles bare and brown: and listened, while a pleased surprise looked from her long-lashed hazel eyes. At last, like one who for delay seeks a vain excuse, he rode away. Maud Muller looked and sighed: “Ah, me! “That I the judge's bride might be! He would dress me up in silks so fine, and praise and toast me at his wine. My father should wear a broad- cloth coat, brother should sail a painted boat. I'd dress my mother so nd and gay, and the baby should g‘ve a new toy each day. And I'd feed the hungry and clothe the poor, and all should bless me who left our door " The judge looked back as he climbed the hill, and saw Maul Muller stand- ing still. | “A form more fair, a face more ! sweet, ne'sr hath it been my lot to |} meet. And her modest answer and graceful air show her wise and good as she Is fair. Would she were mine, and I today, like her, a harvester of ha: no doubtful balance of rights an wrongs, nor weary lawyers with end- less tongues, But low of cattle and | song of birds, and health and quiet | and loving words.” | But he thought of his sisters proud | and cold, and his mother vain of her | rank and gold. So, closing his heart, the judge rode on, and Maud was left in_the fleld alone. But the Jawyers smiled that after-| noon, when he hummed in court an old love tune; and the young girl mused beside the well; till the rain on the un- raked clover fell. He wedded a wife of richest dower, ‘who lived for fashion, as he for power. Yet oft, in his marble hearth’'s bright glow he watched a picture come and ffl: and sweet Maud Muller’s hazel eyes ooked out in their innocent s Oft, when the wine in his glass was red. - he longed for the wayside well inste: and closed his eyes on his garnished rooms to dream of meadows and clover blooms. And the proud man sighed, with se- cret pain, “Ah, that I were free again Free as when I rode that day where the barefoot maiden raked her hay.” SHe wedded a man unlearned and Eor, and many children played round r door. Buf care and sorrow, and | childbirth pain, left their traces op | heart and brain. And oft, when the Summer sun shone hot on the new- mown hay in the meadow lot, and she heard the little spring brook fall over the roadside, gh the wall, in the | shade of the tree again she saw a | rider draw his rein. And, gazing down with timid grace. she felt his pleased eyes read her face. | Sometimes her narrow kitchen walls | stretched away into stately halls; the | weary wheel to a spinnet turned, the tal- low candie an astral burned, and for him who sat by the chimney lug, dozing and g o'er pipe and mu a manly form at her side she saw, d Joy was duty and love was law. Then she took her burden of life again, saying only, “It might have Alas for maiden, alas for judge, for Strain Vegetables rich repiner and housel God pity them both! who vainly the For of all sad words of the saddest are these: been!” Ah, well! For us all some sweet hope lies deeply buried from human H and, in the hereafter, angels may the stone from its grave away. LONGSHOREMAN HELD Alleged Aum Racketeer Charged With Attempted False Sale. NEW YORK, March 27 (#).—Wikliam J. 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