THE WANDERER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 82

THE WANDERER.

A youth there was in days of yore, And a good y youth was he ; He travelled far. he sailed sees o'er, And he came to a far country. They spoke a speech was strange to him, The cities were -great and lorn. Be thought of home, and his eyes grew dim For the land where he was born. He sadly roved the country side, The cities repelled him so, He came to a stream, nor deep nor i»id« The stream did milliards flowHe saw x maid, a singing maid., The maid of the mill was s-he; His satchel upon the bank he laid, And there by the stream sat lie. He watched her there >n the stream's far side. To where he set she neared: The stream flowed on. nor deep nor wid',. Far, far to him she appeared : For she sang a song in a foreign speech, In a foreign land was he, One glance there passed from the eyes of each. Then home to the mill w«nt she. He travelled far, he sailed seas o'er, He wandered from place to place, Her voice he heard foreverniore, Xnd ever he saw her face : And she thought, too, of the stranger yor.tfc, Who sat on the bank forlorn. She dreamed and wept and would leave, goo<l sooth, The land where she was born. Now wherefore thus should love this twain Who evor apart must bide? For though he saw her never again. Yet she as his true love died. —Johannes C. Andbrsen.