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"WHY I HAVE NO HOME"
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A Poem by GEORGE HANEY - 1897
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as Published in "The Marion County News",
January 21, 1897
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Transcribed and submitted
by Veneta McKinney
Written for the
News
Oh! A light in the window I
see,
Perhaps she is looking for
me,
Yes, to be sure, and I will
go,
Perhaps I may not see her any
more.
And up the narrow street I
wend,
There to see my maiden
friend
She was the first to meet me at the
door
With pleasant smiles, just as
before.
Her big blue eyes O, they show so
bright,
But little thinking this my last good
night;
Wait one minute, I will get a
chair,
Then I stood aside to only curl my
hair.
Down we sat my face all
aglow,
To tell the girl why I loved her
so.
We talked of weather, health and our
cold
And this is the story that I
told.
It was an early December
day
On Sunday to church you did
go,
It was there that you did
say
That I was not your
beau.
But I called around just at
three,
My business to you it was hard to
tell,
There ten letters you gave to
me
From the girl I love so
well.
On next Sunday I did
send
A short message or billet
deaux
To claim to be your
friend
Then you said, I am nothing more to
you.
Since then sorrow shades my
brow,
And now I roam with troubled
mind,
To leave you, but don’t know
how,
The one I love so far
behind.
Through this weary world I must
wander
My thoughts alone will be of
you
You, in memory, I cannot
squander,
And love you like I
do.
But now my thoughts o’er surging
sea
And my sturdy frame must travel
too
This face of mine perhaps you’’ never
see
But my love alone will be for
you.
You said you always thought of
me,
Those are the words you said were
true,
The truth you spoke whate’r it
be,
I cannot help but think of
you
Now you know on that last
walk,
While you shivering in the
cold,
You could not even so much as
talk,
Though the g. b. you finally
told.
It was silence you know I
said
And I bid you my last good
night,
Do you see now I am almost
dead.
It was caused by that awful
blight.
You know you told but not in
vain
With me you never more would
go,
But one, our friend, I’ll give no
name,
And I to you am nothing
more.
The old story I hate to
repeat,
But this sis something I must
tell,
My face perhaps you’’ never more
meet,
Though I know I love you
well.
My heart I fondly gave to
you
And you gave yours in
return,
But ah! You with bright eyes so blue,
In flames my heart did
burn.
It was on a Christmas day a sunlight
sky
That our friend in blue did
tell,
The story that is the reason
why,
That you do not love me
well.
This is the reason why I must
roam,
To wander form the face I love so
true,
It is the reason why I have no
home,
All because of my love for
you.
Over this world I must sadly
roam,
Across the Rocky
Mountains high
You know I have no girl or
home,
With a broken heart I shall surely
die.
Now ain’t you sorry of the deed you’ve
done’
A bright-eyed youth with blonde
hair,
Must leave parents, friends, and
home,
And the sweet little maid he loves so
dear.
Eldridge, Ala. January 1896 (**sic – should be
1897?**)
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"SWEETHEART LAMENT"
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A Poem by GEORGE HANEY - 1897
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as Published in "The Marion County News", February 11,
1897
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Transcribed and submitted by Veneta
McKinney
Written for the
News
I must wander on a loafing
pelf,
As this is a haunted place of
sighs,
This is what I mutter to
myself
Is the place where lovers
dies.
How oft have I wandered
here
To meet the lad with eyes so
blue
Now he is gone, I know not
where,
He said my heart was false,
untrue.
Here are ten letters from him to
me,
With them I can never
part,
Though his face I may never
see
He carries with him my broken
heart.
He came to bid the last
good-by
The scene filled my heart with
pain,
He said there with a broken
sign
His face I’d never see
again.
For him I’ll never lose my
love,
Until my grave you shall
see
Then to meet in heaven
above,
Clothed in glory there we’ll
be
Where pleasures can never
die,
In splendor there we’ll
roam,
With no rears to dim our
eyes,
In that great and pleasant
home.
May God bless him wherever he
goes,
This is my oft repeated
prayer
My love for him no one
knows
Yet he has my tenderest
care.
GEORGE HANEY, Eldridge, Ala. Feb.
1897
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