HEART VENTURES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2298, 10 December 1889, Page 2

HEART VENTURES.

I stood and watched my ships-go outlr. ; Each one by one amaopring. free; ! What time the quiet b.aio'or filled , With flood-tide icora the sea, „ ft .l . The first that Bailed, her aa ma Was Joy ; She spread a smooth, wtlte ample sail, And eastward drove with bending span : Before" the singing gale,/- , ,_ j Another sailed, her name was Hope.]'/ ' No cargo In her hold ahe-horei— Thinking to find la western lands Of merchandise a store. H./?'" '-•■■' 'o The next »h»t lulled her n^e" /was Love ; She showed a red fl »g at the mail, A fl»g ai red as blood she.ahowed, _ /Lad. she eped southward' rldlag fast. • The l»it that sailed her nanie was Faith j She slowly took hHepasssg^ forth ; ; Taoked and levy to : atlist ahe kteered : A straight oourae for th> north. •■■ • M.y g»Hatit ships >h°y •ailed i way ■ Over tie ihmm ir ng sumoior sea ; ' I stood aud wached fo? many' a day — '■ But enly one came bnok to me. For Joy was osaght by Pirate Pain, Hopv rau op a hidden reef : ■ AndL.yi>ook firo and foaaderod fast \ la whi lining sq*>s oi grief. - Faith oarae at lait. stormbeat and torn, ; Sne recompensed me all my loss ; ■ For ao a cargo asfa she bora • A oro>vn licked with a orosp. (PortaJown " Nowa.")