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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: On Strike Till 3 + +Author: Grant Balfour + +Release Date: August 27, 2010 [EBook #33555] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ON STRIKE TILL 3 *** + + + + +Produced by Al Haines, prepared from scans obtained from +Internet Archive. + + + + + + + + + + +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. + + + + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of On Strike Till 3, by Grant Balfour + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ON STRIKE TILL 3 *** + +***** This file should be named 33555.txt or 33555.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/3/5/5/33555/ + +Produced by Al Haines, prepared from scans obtained from +Internet Archive. + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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