Letters to Marilou
1. No bright stars not eyes becharm me but thine sometimes at night my pillow thrice upturn and spells lovespeak ere I to bed resign content am i that while the candles burn You’d dream of me or perchance remember the one who penned your name upon a sky I oft include a wish in my prayer that you beloved marilou are nigh and if heaven’s sorrow’s brought upon me for loving the god’s minion rosabel fain would i walk into my Calvary but then beloved I shall love you still alas! my love when the morrow is come without you beside me I have no home 2. O when I behold the westering sun & feel over me the fall of the night when bamboo leaves I hear humming as one sweet symphony ‘neath the gleaming moonlight And summer’s breathing attemper & low whispering uncouth sounds in my ears perhaps untold secrets that i should know or unheard love songs in the olden years i think of thee beloved of our prime still strong still in love And still young at heart dancing the tango moments of our tim