POETRY

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 363, 23 April 1903, Page 2

POETRY

TBINBFIQUE ATION. As one who looks out to the west when shadow-time's begun, And =eea in splendour on the hills the pageant of the ?un, 80 we will look at life, maybe, when life is all bat done, And find old aims, vain dreams, mad hopes, touched with a kindlier light, Flashed with a glcry all unguesaed upon the straining sight; Ay, and be glad to know there waits the long reward of night! Arthur Kbtchuh. ABSEST. I dream of thee, love, in the tunlight, I dream of the?, dear, 'neath the moon ; And oac*h passing thought thy image

hath caught, If it be night-tide or noon. There's a look of thy brow in the lily, Tatre'e a hve of thy cheek in the roBe; From their beauty and breath, In life and in death. Some hint of tbee ceaselessly flows. I draam of thee, love, in my pleasure, I righ for tbee, dear, in my pain; j?oe thy presence I long, as the lute for a song, Or the thirst-weary earth for the rain. I turn from the music and laughter— Tue wildest of revels is drear— To muse on the last Tender look by thee cast; And a day from thy Bide is a year. —Samuel Mintubn Pkck.