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+Title: On Strike Till 3
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+Author: Grant Balfour
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+Release Date: August 27, 2010 [EBook #33555]
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+ON STRIKE TILL 3
+
+
+
+By
+
+GRANT BALFOUR
+
+
+Author of
+
+  "Canada My Home and Other Poems"
+  "The Fairy School of Castle Frank"
+  &c., &c.
+
+
+
+
+
+TORONTO
+
+WILLIAM BRIGGS
+
+1913
+
+
+
+
+Copyright, Canada, 1913, by
+
+J. M. GRANT
+
+
+
+
+  WHERE UNION DWELT
+
+        Beside the deep ravine the cottage stood,
+  O'erlooking elm and willow, beech and birch,
+  In growth profuse and wild o'er shady stream:
+  And viewing cedar, oak and towering pine
+  On yonder crest aglow with light.  How grand
+  The vision in the greenness of the spring,
+  When birds of blue and scarlet vestments come;
+  The greater glory of the summer time,
+  When twinkling wings outvie the rarest flowers;
+  Or ripeness of the fall, when richest green
+  And gold and red in mass of tapestry
+  Delight the eye.
+
+        But now the scene is white,
+  Resplendent white.  No miser hand hath swept
+  The vale and heights but Nature bountiful
+  Of beauty dazzling pure, the season's own.
+  The spotless path below, meandering midst
+  O'erhanging boughs and drooping plants enwrapped
+  In feathered snow, a reverend scene, appears
+  As if for angels formed, who came to walk
+  This sacred aisle to worship winter's God.
+  The lofty pines that grace the other crest,
+  Enrobed in sparkling splendor, raise their heads
+  In solemn awe to yonder jewelled dome,
+  And offer praise to Him whose temple bright
+  Holds earth and sky.
+
+        Beneath a frosted birch,
+  Lit up to brilliance by the burnished moon,
+  The shingle cottage stood, a humble home.
+  The labour of the day was done.  The lamp
+  Within sent out its yellow rays athwart
+  The silver snow and on the well-washed sheets
+  And other things that hung on lines and told
+  The woman's calling.  Work, from dawn of day
+  Till dark, with poor reward.
+
+
+
+
+  CHRISTMAS EVE
+
+        'Twas Christmas Eve.
+  The mother and her little boy (his name
+  Was David Annandale) sat down to read
+  And converse hold before they sought repose.
+  A widow young, with richest auburn hair,
+  Bright hazel eyes 'neath finely arching brows,
+  Teeth of pearl, and sympathetic smile
+  Most sweet.  No wonder that her child, a lad
+  Of six, with raven hair and ruddy cheeks,
+  Should find in her alone his heart's desire,
+  His reigning thought, the perfect one.  His eyes
+  Lovelit no blemish saw in careworn looks.
+
+  Her stories, read and told with girlish zeal,
+  Of beaver, bear and wolf, and jet black squirrel,
+  But, best of all, of smiling Santa Claus,
+  Aroused an interest intense.  The deep
+  Ravine itself and other themes all passed
+  Beneath her spell.  And he, tho' entertained,
+  Was also purified and lifted up.
+  "My mother, dear," he said, "When I'm a man,
+  I'll work and work for you, and buy a castle
+  And a carriage; you will be a lady,
+  And nevermore be tired."
+
+        Tired himself at last,
+  His eyelids fell.  He dreamed a moment deep,
+  Then wide awoke and starting up he wept,
+  And as he sobbed he said, "I've seen my kitten
+  In the cold ravine.  Oh, let it in!"
+  This was a kitten lost a while before,
+  A creature in his heart as much as treasure
+  Real or ideal fills the heart
+  Of any ardent man.  He ever longed
+  And hoped for its return.  And every night
+  The door was opened and the yearning call
+  Went out into the empty air.  And every
+  Night he saw the lost one's dish supplied,
+  Which morning found untouched.  The mother did
+  Her best to stay his tears, and as she bent
+  And tucked him warm in bed she said that maybe
+  Santa Claus would bring another kitten.
+  "Tie a great big stocking, mother; make it
+  Open wide and warm."  She did so, kissed him,
+  And he closed his eyes.
+
+        One hand alone,
+  Would fill that empty stocking, nor forget
+  A friend or neighbor would come later on,
+  But David's eyes when morning came would look
+  On emptiness, save for mother's hand.  Nay, stay,--
+  At midnight, yea, at midnight, when the moon
+  Was still a silver lamp, a creature poor,
+  Benighted, wandered to the cottage door.
+  Ill-treated, cold, too sick to cry, it looked
+  With wistful eyes beneath the fastened door.
+  Then turned and went aside and trembling climbed
+  The sloping birchen tree and reached the roof.
+  Adown the chimney peered, then slowly crept,
+  Then fell.  It lay upon the hearth a time.
+  But lured, it lapped the milk, and, strengthened, strove
+  To climb into the little sleeper's cot.
+  It strove but failed, and, guided by a gentle
+  Hand, it fell at last into the open
+  Stocking, head above, and finding comfort,
+  Softly purred and slept.
+
+        Ah, sleeping boy,
+  Thou dreamest not the joy awaiting thee--
+  The empty place within thy heart shall soon
+  Be filled, thy grief assuaged, thy hot tears dried.
+  'Tis little value--but 'tis much to thee--
+  Because thy love is wrapped up there, and love
+  Is value's measure in the heart of rich
+  And poor.
+
+        The boy awoke and rubbed his eyes.
+  The sun had risen o'er the grand ravine,
+  A silver scene, and sent its slanting rays
+  Of gold beneath the blind, across the cot.
+  He waited not, but crept along and looked
+  Below.  Two eyes looked up.  A moment mutual
+  Magnetized, transfixed!  He drew the creature
+  From its woollen bed, he kissed it,--pressed it
+  To his cheek--and wept for joy.  The mother
+  Woke.  The midnight "gift" was seen and gladly
+  Welcomed home while David slept, and now
+  She also wept for joy.  No home was happier
+  On that Christmas morn.  No gift was costlier
+  Than the gift that meant the wasted worthless
+  Waif's return.
+
+[Illustration: "Magnetized"]
+
+
+
+
+  THE LURKING FOE
+
+        Till early spring (too soon),
+  While David went to school, and learned well,
+  The widow bravely labored on 'mid frost
+  And snow and storm, thro' strain of overwork
+  And worse.  Inhaled, mayhap, from matter bad,
+  Close-handled in her calling (who can trace
+  The lurking venom foe?) the wasting plague
+  Had found a cruel lodgment in her breast.
+  "One hope remains," the kind physician said--
+  Who made no charge for visits not a few--
+  "'Tis institutional treatment where the air
+  Is light and pure, where food is plentiful,
+  And rest abounds."
+
+        The parting wrench was sore.
+  The mother hid her grief and tears, and smiled,
+  But David wept without restraint.  A farming
+  Couple sympathetic offered refuge
+  For awhile, and when he went away
+  (His kitten in a basket 'neath his arm),
+  His heart was heavy--for the sun was down,
+  The world was dark.
+
+        But five months' treatment free
+  Was great and good, and David's mother seemed
+  To be restored to health, for strength was there
+  And color beautiful.  'Twas not enough,
+  Tho' all that could be given, that other waiting
+  Sufferers might have a chance to live.
+  With rest at home the healing work begun
+  Would one day be complete.
+
+        Ye men of wealth,
+  And all that generous give, with all that halt,
+  Herein your golden opportunity
+  Doth lie.  A home you have prepared for them
+  That leave the prison cell, and this is well.
+  But what awaits the convalescent widow
+  And the orphan, fighting off the wasting plague?
+  Suspicion--dread--a refuge craved for vainly
+  Here and there--a battle hopeless, lost.
+  Awake, awake!  Oh, give the shelter sure
+  A child would give to any famished waif!
+  Oh, wake, compassion, wake!
+
+        When David, big
+  With joy, returned, the wind sang in the trees,
+  The flowers, red and white, a welcome smiled,
+  The cottage seemed to be a prince's home,
+  And mother in her loveliness a queen,
+  While in the mother's eyes her child appeared
+  As if a shepherd lad, he looked so strong,
+  So lithe, and ruddy.  But the only flock
+  That David had consisted of a kitten,
+  Now a cat renowned of tiger-stripe
+  And fat.  And once again the cottage-home
+  Gave foretaste of the other, deathless, pure,
+  And glad, for love was there.
+
+        With quenchless hope
+  The happy widow bravely bent her shoulders
+  To the yoke again.  She had her boy
+  To live for, work for, love, and he would be
+  A man some day, and strong, when she would lean
+  On him as he had leaned on her.  And yet
+  The yoke was heavy, and grew heavier
+  As vigour waned.  In spite of hope and will
+  She craved for rest.  Or even if the wage
+  Were better, labour could be lessened
+  And give more of rest.
+
+
+
+
+  ON STRIKE
+
+        One day some workmen
+  Struck for better pay.  And David wondered
+  What it meant to strike.  "What is it, mother?--
+  Do they hit the men that give them work?"
+  The mother smiled.  "No, no, my child, they merely
+  Rest or cease from work to force their masters
+  Into giving better pay to get them
+  Back to work."  A happy thought now seized him--
+  "Oh, mother, strike, and then the people sure
+  Will give you better pay."  The mother smiled,
+  But sighed and said, "My darling boy, if I
+  Should strike, a score of women poor are ready,
+  Even glad, to take my place, perchance for less."
+  The boy was disappointed, and his heart
+  Was sad.
+
+        But "strike," that odd word strike, as meaning
+  Rest from work, or stopping work, clung fast
+  To David's mind.  Apart from better pay
+  He thought that something good remained, and so
+  At night, the last thing done before he slept,
+  The boy would often take his board, a blackboard
+  Big, and chalk in letters large and white--
+  "On strike till 7," "On strike till 6," "On strike
+  Till 5," according as his mother's work
+  Required, or strength could stand.  The metal clock,
+  A loud alarum, was also wound and set.
+  At this the mother always smiled, but when
+  Her treasure's eyes were closed in sleep she wept.
+  She dared not bend and kiss those cherub lips.
+  His lovely face grew paler day by day,
+  And dread, an awful dread, laid hold of her.
+  And she herself was wasting swift and sure--
+  The candle flame was burning low.
+
+
+
+
+  ANOTHER CHRISTMAS
+
+        Two nights, not more, before the Christmas eve,
+  A heap of things for washing lay against
+  The wall.  Alas, at any time too great,
+  The present task might break the weary back,
+  But Christmas need was pressing and the labour
+  Must be done.  (Oh, spare that wasted frame!
+  Hear, O Lord, the widow's cry!)
+
+        The weary, yet the watchful boy,
+  His blackboard took and wrote in letters big
+  And urgent, seeming charged with meaning strange.
+  And the clock's alarum was set.  And now
+  On bended knee beside his mother's knee
+  He spoke his simple prayer, pleading lastly
+  That his mother might have better wages
+  And have rest.  And, oh, the mother's heart
+  Went with him, with himself before the throne,
+  Forgetful, ay entirely, of herself.
+  A wild temptation seized her.  She would clasp,
+  Yea, fiercely hug, that wasted angel-body
+  To her breast, and kiss those guileless, beauteous,
+  Sweetest lips.  Alas! she knew the worst
+  Had come--those eyes, uplifted, hollow, shining,
+  Spoke of death.  And why refrain?  She would not,
+  Yea, she drank the cup of pleasure to the full.
+  The child was glad, and went to rest,
+  A smile of heaven on his lips.
+
+        And now the mother satisfied, as one
+  With strongest wine, rose up, and ope'd the door.
+  She looked abroad a moment, then went out
+  Into the silent air.  The deep ravine
+  Was glorious white.  The mighty pines were robed
+  As if prepared to sing in heaven's choir
+  On earth, when strong the northern tempest blew.
+  The widow, vigour getting for a little
+  From the frosty air, admired the scene,
+  And lifting up her eyes to sparkling worlds
+  Above, she felt assured, though human help
+  And pity wholly failed, that somewhere, sometime,
+  There was plenteous rest.
+
+        And yet she thanked
+  And praised the Power that good and evil gave,
+  For one brief cup of pleasure, if no more--
+  Her pleasure in her darling boy.  "Take him,
+  O Lord, whatever portion mine."
+
+        The tension loosed,
+  The stricken widow turned, yet ere she turned
+  She scanned the northern shore of brilliant night,
+  And, lo, a mountain mass of tempest clouds
+  Lined up for battle with the sleeping south.
+  The woman, fearless, smiled as if in kinship
+  With the coming storm.
+
+        But having struggled, spoken,
+  Pleaded strong, her transient vigour gone,
+  She stumbled to the door and entered in.
+  Beside the bed, she saw the letters written
+  On the board, as if the sacred writing
+  On the wall.  She saw the slender lovely hand
+  Exposed that wrote them, and she bowed and kissed it,
+  But she could not weep.
+
+        Ere midnight came,
+  The child awoke, disturbed, and anxious said,
+  "Oh, mother dear, what is that awful sound?"
+  "My darling, 'tis the sighing of the wind
+  Among the pines."  But swifter sped the tempest,
+  Swifter, and the pines--they bowed their heads
+  Before the blast and sang.  The cedars high
+  And oaks together answered back in song,
+  And louder, louder, as if thunder grand,
+  The tempest bell of music rang.  The boy
+  Awoke again, and feebly cried--"Oh, mother,
+  I'm afraid--what is that dreadful sound?"
+  "My darling, fear not, 'tis the voice of God--
+  He leads the choir.  And he remembers you
+  And me."  "Oh, mother, take me in beside you,
+  I'm afraid of God, but Jesus"--Here he stopped.
+  He struggled till he got in part athwart
+  The cot.  And as his wearied head sank down
+  He whispered faintly, and there came a broken
+  Answer, whispering--"Near me, nearer, darling"--
+  That was all.
+
+        The storm, the mother's music.
+  But the child's affright, attained its height.
+  Then sudden rang the loud alarum.  But
+  They heard it not.
+
+        *      *      *      *      *
+
+  There was once a manger,
+  Once a cross, and both by man despised.
+  But God hath both exalted high.  And once
+  A lonely cottage lowly, overlooked
+  By men.  But God on it had mercy.
+  Tho' He seemed to be in wrath.
+
+[Illustration: "The morning saw her come"]
+
+        Three wise men
+  Did not come, nor one.  A child, a girl
+  With golden hair and gray-blue laughing eyes,
+  A furtive playmate of the boy, with stress
+  Walked through the spotless wreaths of snow.  The morning
+  Saw her come, when all was still.  No lock
+  Debarred her, and she entered, having knocked.
+  She saw the writing on the blackboard big,
+  Against the wall, in trembling chalk--
+
+
+
+
+  "ON STRIKE TILL 3"
+
+  And duly signed by David Annandale.
+  She saw the mother's snow-white face upturned
+  To heaven.  She saw the raven locks of David
+  Strewn upon her breast.  And saw his face--
+  'Twas also white as snow.  The tragic scene
+  Was quickly seen.  She stood amazed a moment,
+  Then approached, uncertain, all atremble.
+  And she softly pressed her playmate's brow.
+  The chill of death went thro' her, and she gave
+  A piercing cry and fled.
+
+        Of Christmas Day,
+  Next day but one, the pretty child had come
+  To speak and childlike tell of something fine
+  She was to bring.  But that great day of countless
+  Happy homes would see the cottage empty.
+  Nature, nature's God, in mercy stayed
+  The stricken widow's ill-paid, weary labour.
+  She had gone on strike, as David said,
+  And she had taken her darling with her.
+
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