SEUMUL AHOP (29)

"Sweet eyes of blue! The stars by night,

That swoon the world with laughing light,

And touch the hills with tender glow

While all the vales are kissed below,

Beside you would no more be bright.

My worlds ye are, and while I throw

My heart to catch the beams that flow

From your fair shrine, my woes take flight,

Sweet eyes of blue!

Glad orbs of beauty! In your sight

My soul mounts up with secret might,

Till Eden's lovely bowers I know;

And as through Heaven's gates I go,

The pleasures all my sorrow smite,

Sweet eyes of blue!" —Freeman E. Miller

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Habang kumakain ulit sila Avery at Renzo, napansin ng dalaga na kanina pa nakangiti ang kanyang kaibigan habang kumakain. *Anong nangyari bigla sa isang 'to?*

Kanina pa niya napapansin na hindi nawawala ang ngiti nito. Kaunti na lang at iisipin na niyang nasisiraan na ng bait ang kaibigan niya.

"Hoy, Zio, anong nangyari sa 'yo?" nagtatakang tanong ni Avery sa binata.

Nag-angat naman ng tingin sa kaniya si Renzo na hindi pa rin nawawala ang