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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 356, 8 March 1866, Page 1

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SOEE off XOI! QtOEEOW not! The world around t'ueo Changes not when daylight’s gone; Woods and streams, and flowery valleys— Mora restores them every one. Doubt not, then, a brighter dawning Yet shall come, to glad thy heart; Fortune and fair hopes restoring. All from which thou now must part. Borrow not! No rayless midnight Hangs upon thy lonely hours ; ’Tis but as the summer twilight, Perfumed by the dew-gonmied flowers; Where thy heart’s love lately lingered. Where thy thoughts are hovering now. Visions beauteous, fairy-lingered, Gladness o’er thy spirits throw. Borrow not! As gentle breezes Wander far o’er ocean’s foam. Bearing on their wings the sweetness Telling of a flowery home Bo shall memory far o’er absence Breathe the fragrance of the past,— And kind words aud looks all lovely, Boon revive and sweetly last. Borrow not 1 The Winter’s wildness Brings short gleams of sunshine fair. Telling us how bright aud blooming Soon ’twill beam on Summer’s air; Such shall see the sweet communing? ■ Of those hearts now doomed to sever, Whispering still, though storms are round us. Sorrow not!—hope on for ever ! J. 11., Blackburn.