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■ -J<‘ jiOVE'S , IMMQIt'PAT.f'PY ... ' gPHE'bMna yave creeps upon the land,“ ' 1 ’’ d ' feek rock and stone. And leaves a pearl upon the sand ~ „ _ Prtocess might he proud to own. '' • hen *^B’“id the foain, ' rf “ I o' thing; the sea could take, y Borne fair face, shipwrecked far fromhome,. Had kissed it for that home's sweet; sake, V ’ • Al i a ' years irifliin the .flee*. ’ ' _v Amid strange growths of ocean, .now . . It comes from where she lies asleep, To shine.uppn another hrow. ' Somehight when hound, amuch-prized thing. At banquet on* maiden’s head, That hopeless Mss may haply bring , . A benediction from the dead, LDd ® hemay find her pulses'strrred, . I** 10 , wears 11; » for some noble deed—- ’ * blessing by tho lips conferr^cl, That kissed it e’er the soul was freed. Tor 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 Gon, enduring evermore.
’—Cassell’s Magazine. S. 0.
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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 52, 30 December 1867, Page 323
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181Select Poetry. Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 52, 30 December 1867, Page 323
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