For Valentine’s Day, another Ima Hogg mystery in an undated
(1905?) letter to her, addressed to “Sweetheart”:
It
was not just the muchness of your note but the wasness of it that brought that
inexplicable joy to my heart. Most heartily do I agree with you, sweetheart,
that Fate could not be so unkind as to keep long separated two such loving and
trusting hearts. Were I to think that for a moment that we were not to be one
forever, that moment would I cease to be. But think not on thoughts so
unpleasant for it is by thinking right that you get right. So get right on
thought and it will be as you think it. I think only that I love you, and that you are mine and that no
power on earth can separate us, and none can. I love you by day. I love you by
night. No winter chill our love can blight. For the moment, dear, I go away--but
I leave my love with you to stay. So with love, love, love, and kisses too, I
leave the moment my love with you.
Your
Sweetheart.
P.S.
When I first
started to you, I am sure, my love, this note was blue.
P.P.S.
Here’s a last
kiss and another still.
Here’s one for
Jack and one for Jill.
Of course they
are all meant for you.
Jack and Jill I
thought would do.
That I might
give your kisses the rue
Ere I left--don’t
you mind.
But if my dear
you are really mad
I’ll take them
back to make you glad
So there! and
there!! and there!!!
The cheeks, the
mouth, the hair.
So now I’m off
but not to stay.
I’ll soon be
back, so dear be gay.
[4 words are crossed out and unreadable] Sweetheart
Will we ever know who “Sweetheart” was?
Good one. The poem is really nice and so is the poem, full of sentiments.
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