VERSES OLD AND NEW.
ELYSSES. Not yet is all my passion dead. Not that slow, , unsparing , An old 6ong 6inging in ray head _ Can waken'all tho old desiro; " . And l ah! tho wild light on the sea, ' The,promiso of theso dreaming skiesSomething in theso can wake in mo * Tho old pain and tho old surmise; —Godfrey Elton, in tho "Westminster Gazette." \v. L "'. IRISH MOTHEBS.. . fhey aro shapen to tho music of tho tides upon our shore; . i", Tho first breath-in their nostrils has the sharpness of our spray Tho. very milk wo give them has.tho 6avor of onr sea: , But our children co away—our children go away! ' _ ' Oh, the long,-long time of waiting with , our eyes'upon tho door, ■ * ; Through the whitening. of the hedges : 'and:tho slash of autumn rain! Far,' j far, away they Weary for ' our faces, it must be; " Will they never como.again? Will.they •: never come again? s Amfelia Jostpbwo Burr, in the "Centn'ry.". - ~ ' '
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1061, 25 February 1911, Page 9
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157VERSES OLD AND NEW. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1061, 25 February 1911, Page 9
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