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ARTEMUS WARD,
§f 8 he gone to a land of no laughter, © Th&man that for us all? ft ores death hnt a silence hereafter From the sounds that delight or appal ? © nee closed, have,the lips no more duty, ■; • No ihoYe pleasure the exquisite'eara ;V d as the heart done o'erflowing with beauty, i As the eye’s have with tears. 4ay,' if aught'he sure,what can he surer - ■■- Than the Earth’s good decays not with Earth? And of all the heart’s springsmone are purer Than the springs of the fountains of Mirth. He that sounds them has pierced the heart’s holThe places where tears are and sleep; [lows, For the foam-flakes that dance in life’s shallows Are wrung from life’s deep,
He" name with' a heart full of gladness From the glad-hearted world Of the West, — Won our laughter, hut not with mere madness, 1 Spake and joked with us, not in mere jest; Forrjihe Mamin ,our heart. lingered after,
When the merriment died from our ears, And those that were loudest in laughter Are silent in tears.
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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 82, 8 July 1867, Page 160
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178Select Poetry. Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 82, 8 July 1867, Page 160
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