With Faint Heart (1904)
by Carroll Watson Rankin

Extracted from The Smart Set magazine, Vol 13, May–Aug 1904, p. 128

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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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