With Faint Heart
WITH FAINT HEART
WITH ashen cheek and hollow eye,
He lingered near her gate.
I met him there, and said: “Old chap,
You're looking ill of late.”
He glanced up at her window,
And said: “O friend of mine,
I fear excessively that I'm
Going in to a decline!”
Carroll Watson Rankin.
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