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GONE BEFORE. There's a beautiful face in the sflent air, Which follows me ever and near, "With smiling eyes and amber hair, With voiceless lip's, yet with breath of prayer, That I feel, but cannot hear. The dimpled hands and ringlets of gold, Lie low in a marble sleep; I stretch my arms for the clasp of old, But the empty air is strangely cold r And my vigils alone I keep. There's a sinless brow with a rndiant crown, And a cross laid down in the dust; There's a smile where a not a shade comes now, And tears no more from those dear eyes flow. So sweet ia their imioeent trust. All, well! and summer is coming again, Singing her same old song; But oh! it sonnds like a sob of pain, And it floats in the sunshine and the rain, O'er hearts of the world's great throng. There's a beautiful region above the skies, And I long to reach its shore, For I know I shall find my treasure there, The laughing eyes and amber hair, Of the loved one gone before.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1115, 8 September 1871, Page 2
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187Select Poetry. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1115, 8 September 1871, Page 2
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