ARAMOHO'S ANGEL ADORED.

NZ Truth, Issue 63, 1 September 1906, Page 3

ARAMOHO'S ANGEL ADORED.

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.Wild roses by the wayside, come . . forth m all y^our splendor, And crown them with a beauty they never knew of yore; Wild warblers of -the woodland, let your notes be- sweet and tender, iFor I'd have you sing more joyous than you ever sang before. For she's coming m the radiance of heir youthful charms completeness, ' < She is coming forth to meet ins, my queen, my rose, my star ; ■*And the music of her laughter with the lark's song vies m sweetness, And her cheeks are fairer, smoother than 'the rose's petals are.

O, my flower of flowers the fairest f O, my radient angel maiden j , See, the woods, to 'grate your.coming, m their richest robes are dreased; .Each bank and bush and hedgerow with choicest gifts is laden, &nd the thrush. has kept his sweetest song for you at my request ; For I whispered them a secret, and the eager winds wild roaming Heard the message that I gave them, and bore I'the1 ' the news afar, That down the- fotest pathway, to meet me one was coming, Who is, sweeter than the roses, purer than the lilies are.

0, my peerless, dark-eyed maiden, Oh,' my vision true and tender,, How I long, to, take you' to my iheatt, I m sweet bondage bold you fast, With you heairt responsive beating, do you doubt me if I wonder . Is my happiness too perfect; my joy too great to last ? No, not so, for love triumphant knows not death's dividing portal ; i The birds shall cease their singing i , and the rose's beauty , fade, But m fair celestial garden love's rose shall bloom immortal, i Ever fresh and fair and fragrant, O thou sweet, my Aramoho Angel Maid. J. F. BURKE. Aramoho, August, 1906.