Original Poetry.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 51, 1 July 1875, Page 7

Original Poetry.

Liove'a all-devoted constancy ; When kindred souU Ire joined. Than thee no ; purer image fills -...-• A niche in nature's BhrinV; Type of ecstatic transports thrill*. . And feelings glow divine The eagle and the Vulture share Dominion of the sky ; I mark the imperial lords of air With regal pomp sweep by. But, ah ! their flight, far sunward spread. No soft emotion brings ; Porbodiiag sounds of .woe pervade The rnshing of their wings. But thou, what melting sweetness glows , In thy low mellow note, Heard where the random wild- flower blows In forest glooms remote I ■;; Oh! more than language can express' ■' Of love and truth, is there ; The depth of woman's tenderness — The purity; of prayer. ■:■>. ' . ; > SpOQtaneous worship haUpwa.deep The scene "where none intrude?, When earth and heaven, coratnuniae, keen The Sabbath of the woods ; . . While sunset' sanctifies the'calm, 1 Devout 6f caff h tnd r skies ; ; And low like ( prayer from fields of balm The breath of evening sightii Yet spotless dove religion sends ' My theme a glory' too— A charm, harmoniously; that blends, With nature's simple due^ Oh 1 marvellous was tHe sign of love ; Through toee to mortals given, V/hen sfoop'd thy brooding wings above Theiaiajesty o£:heaven:l; : A r Bird of the consecrated plume, j Whom earth's creator chose, (Whilst yet above its watery tomb 3 One lonely mountain rose), To waft the pledge of peace to men, 1 The olive's welcome bough , I hail thee, Mercy'a herald then, , Her sacred signal n6w. /