



Produced by Al Haines










[Frontispiece: Ella Wheeler Wilcox]






THREE WOMEN


BY

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX



  Author of "Poems of Passion," "Maurine," "Poems of
    Pleasure," "How Salvator Won," "Custer and Other
      Poems," "Men, Women and Emotions,"
        "The Beautiful Land of Nod," Etc.




CHICAGO--NEW YORK

W. B. CONKEY COMPANY

PUBLISHERS




Entered according to act of Congress, In the year 1897, by

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London.


All Rights Reserved.

Made in the United States.




  THREE WOMEN



  _My love is young, so young;
    Young is her cheek, and her throat,
  And life is a song to be sung
    With love the word for each note._

  _Young is her cheek and her throat;
    Her eyes have the smile o' May.
  And love is the word for each note
    In the song of my life to-day._

  _Her eyes have the smile o' May;
    Her heart is the heart of a dove,
  And the song of my life to-day
    Is love, beautiful love._

  _Her heart is the heart of a dove,
    Ah, would it but fly to my breast
  Where lone, beautiful love,
    Has made it a downy nest._

  _Ah, would she but fly to my breast,
    My love who is young, so young;
  I have made her a downy nest
    And life is a song to be sung._




  THREE WOMEN.


  I.

  A dull little station