A WOMAN'S FEAR.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 246, 26 November 1878, Page 3

A WOMAN'S FEAR.

(sklected:)

Out where the wind and rain are beating, Beyond the bar where the lighthouse gleams, I watch your bark o'er the waves retreating, Like the flying ship of the sailor's dreams— I watch alone by the stormy sea, For love, my love, you are gone from me!

Gone where the shadows of night are falling, Speeding along through the sullen foam, Out of sight and beyond recalling, And farther ever from love and home ; While I forlorn in the dream-light stand, And the dark creeps wearily over the land.

Oh! long and bitter with tears and praying Slowly my desolate days will pass, With fears forewarning anil hopes betraying. And never the light of your smile, alas 1 And never the sound of your voice to cheer, Perchance for ever, my dear, my dear!

I try to think of n blissful morrow Made glad and bright by a golden sun, Whose dawn shall gleam through the mists of sorrow, When all the night shall be past and

done, And we stand here on the shining shore, My love, together for evermore.

But a dream will come of a storm-tossed vessel

That rises nigh on an angry wave, Of brave hearts strong with their doom to wrestle, But gulfed at last in an ocean grave, Of a loveless life and deathless woe— Oh love, my love, if it should be so! J. T. Ferguson.