POETRY
IOBT& Jith every day wake and say HwnkOodiKwork and light! Andwhenatkut The day is past— Thsak Chid for rat and night! Taieuteiad ■watt peace of mind— To knew life's prcafooß worth; Ood't fifts to take And with them make ApamdJae of earth. THE SWADI THAT SLEPT. Oh, oneo uj on a time within .' A little wood, where spring had spread AH fair delights, flowers white and red, And gold and bine, and brackens too, Tkat worship at the purling linn,
A maiden came upon her swain, Sound sleeping in this fair domain 1 So ao't she kissed him! Yet he leapt Up hastily, and rubbed his eyes In meiry dread and quaint surprise. 'Ob,dream r dread!' the maiden said, Mock terror-stricken as she stept Aside,' Sure, certain horrid dreams Have plagued thee in thy sleep, meseems!' * A horrid dream it was, I trow,' ■ Said lie; ' I sped on angel's flight Beyond the son, beyond the light Of moons, and sought, and found thee not; I stood in heaven aloes 1* * Atd so Thou tumblest back to earth I' quoth she. ' Nay, love, I wake to heaven and thee!' A. Boyd Seorr.
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 410, 17 March 1904, Page 6
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192POETRY Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 410, 17 March 1904, Page 6
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