POETRY
EYES. •:*>, A grey eje is a sly ea* ... "x-.j. . Aad rogu'gh is a brown one: Tara fall upon me tty eye—; Ah! bow iCI wavelet* drown oho ! \ A blue eye ia a true eye! Mysterious ia a dark one, Which flashes like a spark-sun! A black eye ia the best one. —Ohikhtai. Yhjcsis. THE LONELY BOOM. These walla Are suddenly grown bare , f ,.. r t And strange to me. ■ i ir v ,L jt j All that yesterday made up The intimate. - Frame and compass of out lives “Is changed. This ia no longer home ;
It ia H chill and desolate As L : V . ‘ *■■' It seems a.thousand years, gsg Ot %•£; . m ; v 5 " The threshold, 1? .. Since you went away And took the very' heart of things— The sense of home, Of comfort. Of companionship. Even the familiar look Quitted the house with you. .1 close the doors, mass?* k f- ,'niu One by one; The darknesartoor"'" 1 ~ Is desolate and strange, —Paul Hester
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 379, 13 August 1903, Page 2
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165POETRY Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 379, 13 August 1903, Page 2
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