GRANDMOTHER GREY.
Grandmother Grey by the window sat, And looked at the setting sun, And watched the cows as they slowly came From the pasture one by one; And back to the " long ago " Her memory travelled fast, While the dim eyes closed as she lived again 'Mid scenes of the happy past. "Let me see," she murmured; "ah, yes, I know; It was there by the pasture gate That Robin with milkiug-pail and stool For my coming used to wait. It was just a week of our wedding-day That he fell so sick and died ; And I laid my heart in the grave with him, And loved none other beside. " But, ah 1 it was for my father's sake That I wedded Farmer Grey, And we've both been tender and true and kind As the years have slipped away ; But I wonder much when the hour doth come That my soul be called above, Shall I, as the wife of Farmer Grey, Seek Robin, my only love ? " And the sun went down in the golden West, And the cows came safely home, As Grandmother Grey at the window sat, While her thoughts seemed yet to roam. But the angels came for her waiting soul While the twilight shadows fell, And Grandmother Grey, the farmer's wife, With Robin has gone to dwell.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1599, 4 August 1874, Page 309
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222GRANDMOTHER GREY. Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1599, 4 August 1874, Page 309
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