ORIGINAL POETRY.
IN MY DREAMS. (Lines for music.)
Inrmy dream's tbey hoyer round me, -' x Faces of the dead ; And the forms L toyed surround me, "As i£days Ibrig fled. "" Every night, come, father, brothers, V Wm. before nave ioirief) fi round, with many others, . Bidding me to come. ■» And jthese/s.atfe, who looks |o kindly— Ah! those eyes of blqe ! .: Yeari s#d I )6Wd him blindly, Loved aa few e'er do.
I have Borne where read a E-tory, 1 Told'in days of old; * Those who see the dead, in glory, Soon ehsil be as cold. ; , Ci|> it.be pSy eno* : iipproa|!b:ing f " ' Makes Ihe visioii clear } ■'•' Earth-life, On spirit-life encroaching, Shews tbe I6veß ones near ? In my dreams they hover round me, Faces of the dead; Lips will kiss me, forms surround me, As lit days long fled. * ' '"'"•'. '-~',' '•"■"', / ; - ''','■! Thalia. Akaroa, July 3,1878. !l
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 206, 9 July 1878, Page 2
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142ORIGINAL POETRY. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 206, 9 July 1878, Page 2
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