ORIGINAL POETRY.
HUMARA DHIL. Lady, hide those eyes of thine! Let their velvet eyelids veil From my eight the clear, dark depths, That entrance me with their spell. Thou art so fresh in the fight, That thy power thou dost not know; How a light glance lightly shot May through man's heart-armor go. Thy soft glances are like seeds Carried by the summer breeze, Where or in what soil they fall Neither cares the breeze nor sees. Yet look what a stately tree Oft is grown from such wind-seed ! All depends upon the soil ; Of your glances then take heed ! Flowers were made to glad our eyes, But we all can them possess, So uninjured we can gaze On their greatest loveliness ; But with thee it is not so— Danger in thy looks there lies ; Therefore, lady, have a care, Veil the richness of thine eyes! X. T. P. February, 1880.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 372, 13 February 1880, Page 2
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151ORIGINAL POETRY. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 372, 13 February 1880, Page 2
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