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Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 386, 26 August 1884, Page 6

. . ORIGINAL POETHY. /. ;— .; TO THEMIMIHAUi ,j „; , / 0h j bonny, winding Mimih^% t r . •. . ', Thou dearer art tp me , i ; Mf , | ' , „ Than any. other, howe or knoxse, ' °'* ' ': 4 However fair ihny be, ' ' • ■: .'5 ■.'•■>•-• '" ' '■:,?■.- i!-« ; „;, r In youth's bright days, when toil and care - , Were yet unkuown to me, " . ": " I've wandered round thy bends so Mr r •'. - ! And happy been near thee. 1! ■••. When freed irom school I've climb'd th' ■ .' foees '-„.' , ' ' ' • ' Which sliade thy ; flowery banksj : ••' Robbed nests Of starlings and wildbees, Indulged in boyish pranks. .. ... Mid dashing falls somti love to rove ! ' Or- by rivers dark and wide, ' ' .•.,-: While othei^ ain.g of haunted grove ,■. "■ Where.. midnight .fairies 'glide.. ! Whore towering crags their heads' uprea*' I And avalanches' gleam, . Up some 'tis/mufcic to their carTo hear the eagle scream. ' ' ; The 'Mimi'bo.ists of none of these,. r , \,. ■■ Xet in its quiet retreat , . ' n ','. " ' ."."' The murmur of the gentle breeze ! ' ' Makes music far more sweet ' The tui with his chattering speech - _ : The bell birds, rich deep tone '"l " ' Enchant, me, till the woodhen's screech ' r - Tells night is coming on. • ; .•; ■' ■'/■'■••''■'. ' j : ■ '1 „; . . : Oh,, b.pnny winding llimihau „ ; . Th;ou. dearer art 10 me" "' ! ''■''[ Th an any. other h6we or knowe, "''' •' ' •' ; ' Howevetfair'they-be. -■ ; :• ■ >. :<..'.: > • * ' * ''•/■. 't, '■•»W ' Wyrid ham i' August* 21st. " ;tiil ■■''< '" il lt ' ;,; ■■ ■ ■ mmmmr — : .«'■■.. ;:l «,a ;.;.,.^ SELECTED" POETttf V '/.',., ' ,;,',," Twiji' 1 Souls.'-" ■■-: li '- /^ Sottie kindly look: some undefined expression'/ ' Lurks in the shadMW of thine, earnest eyes. Some, secret ,t.hing f< that, claims, my heart's ;:i, , posßession . ' ' ;' „ - l i • i '- >i • 'By sympathetib ties; ' ' : »'"' •: ' * "« "> ' ' ' o of the ttind, , sme 'feYlow . ". feeling.^' 11 '' •': ir- "•. 'n-)>\ Blends 'our cleft lives -> to one haririonious .",'i ■' -whole; ■..•.' . .[ ■■ .. •,;•,..]..: The good unto .my better «elf appealing ', ' , Hapntt all my iriraoit soul.' ' ••■■'■ . Wqrldless, yet ever tq my thoughts reply inc. , Giving aae look for look Vand'^breaih 1 "' for • ," # ' breath;' ' ••' '-' ■•■■ \ku -,<, With^tliee the world is paradise undjinK,' Without thee— life is death J i; ..{ . ' 1 :: . r . > .T-'UemplCßw:.' ' l[ _ Mt4)MCffi[T;'- i'-i-ii'i [The following .rema?ka.ble yerses axeirom " the New York j ( . 4 Tribune.', and w« only fathered by^the initials A. W. H. tlraire is genuine merit in them.] ' • .' - '•• •■•'• The west winCjWows, ihe wcstWiiidiblew ; The snow hissed cruelly : ; ■'■' ' ' '■'■ '. -' ■ ( . 1 All nightl heard; the baffled 1 cry : i I,^l .Of mariners on th,e;sea. v :; ( , .; „, , f saw the icy shrouds and sail .>„ ■ . The slippery, reeling, deck, And the white-caps dancing, pale with flame. (i . The corpse lights of the wreck; ' ; ' The westwind b r lows, tiie westwin^'blew, And on its snowy Way • ; " : ' '■'<• ' That hisssd and hushed like rushing aand, My soul fled far away. , , .-,:•-.... 1 The snbw went toward the morning hills, In curling, drifts of white, - „ But I went up tp the gates of God Through allthehowliug night/ " I went up to the gates of Gadl '' : The angel waiting thexft Who keeps the blood-red keys of Heaven, Stooped down to hear my prayer, i " Dear keeper of the keys of ; Heavehi A thousand souls to irigb.fr i r> > r . Are torn from life by land and sei.l *' ■ Whost life was yet delight,, '■". « Jf '* II But I am tired with stonnis and pan.~ Sweet angel, let me in I ; ■- And send Home strong beart back aawa To suffer and to -si-dF „,.. *• The angel answered stern and slow • ; ' How % darestthbu be.dead, ; „ W Su Goa 3 du ? t t0 Im M street . Where happier men may tread?. / iJ ; 'f Go back and eat earth's bitter kerbs \ Go hear its death-bells toll t ; ■ 1 ', Lie speechless underneath their feet ' > y Who tread across thy soul. " Go learn the patience of th& Ikw* Whdse^righteous jndgments mjt'sThy mnrderad^crj may cleare i3i» gswrad, ■ ■ But not unbar my gat©.*" *»«-*«^ ' Eight backward through the «e«Uiiat „. ./. „snow, , ( ■ * , Back through the battling %iia, .' My;soul crept slowly to its lair— •• ' i ■ The body left behind. :. '. -, , .. . ; - •The.;trest wind blbwe, -the. iWe %t' wiad '■■ blew; .•• it 1 .., j, ; , t v-/'ts' ■- '■ There are dead, men onrthe sea,,, --- . And landsmen .dead in ihrouding drifts,^ - - jßutthereislifeinme. ' : '' - <;> : fine -pejc^ption ; HWa4e of no breeding but. of birthZ-XEiiie'radii. - '•>< ■'-« '..«?. Bnffi «ieney of Utf.iifertf.iir. tcinotr that thy : ment-» not wiffiment.— rSfeAuruß-' tine. „ ,- , ■;. , f : r • ' '-. ' .4*^. fl . re -*l l^ l J..B&n«'*#hisi" ! tiS the- •■: A miaet grows rich by Beetaing, po pr}.aa ex . •■ m*4#&*to • By struggling w^th misfortunes" We are' swe toTeceivesome woiitfds in the coaflictrbnt » sure.methdd to come off Tictorious i»" WrmJ-ningaway.-[Gqldßmith. . f wl » < W- lun -, ; There are f ew,[ Vjery 'few,' '• pi ratters.— -Lyha^es picken»,>. „•, . . Good ,Mtnre,^ the, very air of a goodmind, ; tSS a f&;ihft&4l bdl, and • indolence is>a delightful but : r'ai|i»isDnff state,; we. m^ be aoin g S ometlsS.*to bl & 4?tion.i g .no less nec^^w' ■ h«S 1S «nb prot?f of * go^ v edttcatiors' »na of " Politeness is like on aic cosMoi 'fhere Bo.nat.wart to strike, till (l the,iro?Sr hot, Whmffre it ; hot ; bj- s trikin grT7? j[Eafwaj|. ' m t^£?x^*&W® W 3 Appointed »ut to tha Wejhngton oor^sp^ndeWof the Otago Bsjly Times.' On Hdn£^»Kn».ff n.the -London papers, and .onftae^fSSe ecurities : afl . ; rouixdV. Such^ SfflffS? aoreqver, had^nofr occWrea'fbr soin^nS ' * .revioußly. Ie siffipkerr' /ofrifeTlite he confidence iin^eir, names, wnffi-othS f say.thjt «^;mer^k/a^ omcJdence-tha^Trfay'w^B%ttKi»te 21 the Stock "feaan^fwh^/a.^to? loney would be set free for, inrafMtuS here was probably a conseqiießtw,^