Only Too True, Alas
Yes 1 1 have loved and lost A man of good repute; No charm hath life for me. None but his ways can suit. I met him some time since— Oh, wonderful first love, How sweet thy memory! More sacred than the dove 1 Time passed and oft we met; No words of mine were breathed, And why ? some one may ask ; Ah ! I alone did love. His words were just a friend's; Would to God they had been more ! And I was but a woman Feeling stranded on the shore. But now he's lost to view. Oh. shadow of my love! Ihou'lt never know the void Left in my heart by you. But hope has not yet left me, For every day I pray That God will fill my first love's heart With gentle thoughts of me. Tes, even yet I hope to feel His lips against mine pressed, His loving arms round me entwined, As oftentimes I've dreamt. And should time bring me not my hope, I'll love him just the same, And tho' on earth no more we meet I'll hope for him in Heaven. DOX.OB,
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 386, 1 October 1903, Page 5
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193Only Too True, Alas Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 386, 1 October 1903, Page 5
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