HIS RETURN
•Beneath' the rose-strewn grass- , You dreaming lie— Nor know'that I am'here to wawih! : jour sleep .' _ ; .'.■'' ; . Profound and still—nor hear my anguished sou! i Calling to you across Death's silent Deep. •'' Red roses in your hair I I saw them glow Against its dusky shadows," and tte! sheen : Of silver nightdews, frosted in tha light . From amber moon-rays, crowned love's mystic dream. ..-''.• ■White roses in your hair!. The day we stood . Beneath the chancel-arch,, and in God's House " ''. ' Looked down tho coming years and saw. them glow— "' ' ' -,' The faerio promise of a phantom dawn I, Now roses—white and redBloom at your head. The twilight, turns, to day— . Yet yon sleep on— . * '. ■Where neither hopes.nor fears can stbf. • your dreams .-'■■■_ . Nor roses fade—when their short lift! ■ -is done: ■ \ ;• _ ; —Frances Layland-Barratt', in th<( ■■■■•:. "Westminster Gazette."-
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2929, 15 November 1916, Page 6
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134HIS RETURN Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2929, 15 November 1916, Page 6
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