Original Poetry.

Evening Star, Issue 4146, 10 June 1876, Page 4

Original Poetry.

MYjFAT-HBR’S iGRAYE. j . Mslatßer,yes, they laid.ijhele low, , ! ;vyAJ^m^y*weeks’have Y j t r fi^<Jfr^Have the shadows grow ".’ <'‘r>x)wk^wl^B^j^adui2Eete’alojie. j Yss, many a bright dream time effaced, ’*" ’ | * ,i: ’ this v ßihde r th6‘Se¥sjysimplewprde I traced — “Though ‘phrtejhrhcre, we ' meet in; '...., i n ; .. ; - . ri ■ ‘ Yet I recall each memory how— The very smile, he wore, TbeplacialooK of lip and brow, That neyer seemed so calm,before; The low’ “Odd, bless thee !” and the name ; He strove to* speak, bht strove in vain— ; Tha : v6loe whs 'hushed, the angel came, ri'jFheEe&hl was free frdm death .and pain;’ The handj, clasped in mine ;,grew chill, r The yp^ceLyeamed: to. near was flpd,. ' Thh heart that beat with, love was still— And then 1 knew thst he was. dead. ’ And this is all—all that ialeftr—■, ; The memory’s gone of other years, The hopes', the joy? of life bereft— A simple stbhe bedewed with tears. ' I, ! ■ \£jjf \ Since then, did strangers stoop and raise ; - - rThe-long-green grass that grown so high i? And do Ifreadtheir wondering gaze—--11 Why doealthia gravh'neglected lie 1” Till o’er them'comes;a softer gleam, ‘ a-They-trtflbtKe words so I6hg 7 Sinee giveni; Could memory bring a’sweeter dream—- “ here, we meet in ; scent the ai^, r J Say nQt .the,_sleepjßr is forgot: : -*x , , By those who*'strive tp, drown their care. My father, coidd thy watchiuheyea *r' 1 Abo^tf thjr wandering v : Weit;thph nnfihred amidst those sighs, ‘ ‘Weitthon nnvrept To-mght above thejaEadowed, stone., Bead, f ,.„ i r-.j 8° Sad grown*. I;.‘ i j^hQ]^.-wi^jde4iTonV„- - • -Say not with time this feeling flies— f . Tune that change to man has given;; Jflhereiaa love that never dies, —fieinoveifrom earth to beam ituheaven. - .-w.... : }i - r KITTY