Miscellany.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 450, 12 November 1880, Page 2

Miscellany.

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They say i 7 our beJoyed,dead ''A Should seek the old familiar place, £ Some stranger would be there instead, ■ And they would find no welcome face- W^m

I, cannot tel 1 how ' it might be> . ; In other homes s but this I know Could.myJpstj darljng "onie.tq.me,, That she would never, find it'eoi*'

Ofttiines the flowers have come and gone, Ofttimes the winter winds have blown, The while; her! peaceful irest went on, And I have learned to live alone, ■

Have slowly learned, from day to day, \ In alliife's task to bear my part; But whether grave or whether £ay, I hide her memory in my heart.

Fond, faithful love' has blest my way, And friends are around me true and

tried : They have their place ; but her's to-day Is as empty as the day she died.

How would I spring withi bated breath, And joy too deep for word or sign, To take my darling home from death, And once again to call 'her mine.

I dare not dream the blissful dream, It fills my heart with wild unrest; Where yonda , cold, white marble's gleam She still must slumber. God knows best.

But this I know, and those who Bay Our best beloved would find no place, Have never hungered, every day, Throngh years and years, for one dear face.