Select Poetry.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 538, 30 December 1867, Page 1

Select Poetry.

LOVE'S IMMORTALITY. MT-tIE blind wave creeps upon the land, And feels its way by rock and stone, And leaves a pearl upon the sand A nnnccss might be proud to own. Perchance when falling ’mid the foam, The dearest thing the sea could take, Some fair face, shipwrecked far from home, Had kissed it for that home's sweet sake, And, buried years within the deep. Amid strange growths of ocean, now It comes from where she lies asleep. To shine upon another brow. Some night when bound, a much-prized thing At banquet on a maiden’s head. That hopeless kiss may haply bring A benediction from the dead, And she may And her pulscs'stirred, Who wears it, for some noble deed—--1 blessing by the lips conferred, That kissed it e’er the soul was freed. For never can the faintest spark That flashes from Love’s altar-fires Vanish and die into the dark, But, ere the flickering life expires It brings a blessing to some heart, ’Mid earthly troubles toiling sore; For Love we know is but a part Of God, enduring evermore. —Cassell’s Magazine. g_ c_