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A VALENTINE. The burn runs wimpling on its way, And knows not haste or rest; But, as it flows along, it sees A lily on its broast, And rippling lightly ever on, A song floats up above, In notes that change with chaDgeJoss words, " I love thee, lily-love." Still farther on it flows and falls At last into the sea ; But 'midst wild waves it loees not Its own identity ; For uiongst the many songs that swell The chorus of the deep, Its song, " I love you, lily-love," It evermore will keep. So 'tis with me, for only once I met thee, as the stream Its lily saw but once ; yet I May minglo song with dream ; And in my many musing moods A hope there comes to me— That thou, my maiden-moon, wilt draw My life-tide back to thee. X.T.R February 14, 1881.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 476, 15 February 1881, Page 2
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146Original Poetry. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 476, 15 February 1881, Page 2
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