DROWNED IN THE RIVER.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 78, 8 October 1877, Page 2

DROWNED IN THE RIVER.

(Suggested bj the- melancholy fate of 'Henri • DeTiiurettes.). Two, three o'clock, nnd vet be is not 'here, Merciful God ! what is it that I fear ? . My soulfo filled witho strange shrinking dread Last night, last nighfe; I 1 dreamt . that he was = dead,'. . Ay. while.my lord ones wrapt m slumber lay I drsamt they bore him on a bier away, Ev'n white his warm rheort close to mine did beat, Idreamt Iwandered through o crowded street Where rayetic crowds were gathered, talking low, , , As if they did not wish that I 'should know What they wero saying— suddenly a shout Of wild discovery camo ringing oub. From .the pale lips of an excited crowd, Close by the river bank— l 'shrieked aloud. And to the spot with frantic terror rushed, Kind hands would have detained me, but 1 . Thei?erasp aside, nnd forced a passage through 'JV assembled throng : roil to the ri«r Hew,. But, oh, Great God! the fearful sight that met , , Mv striclam gaze, it haunts my tncmry yet. There-with the bright eun elAiiegororhead,. I saw him lying in the water— deadGazing upoj me with large vacant eyes, Out of the tomb, froai whence he could nobrise. ... Better a. thousand times, death, pain, disgrace „ Than one such glimpse of that upturned face> Oh Heaven ! A lifiime's misery I felt In thai brief moment— on the ground I.'knelt,. And begged of the redeeming God to save, To save my husband from a wat'ry grave. JuU then I.woke, and oh, with what delight,.