UNSATISFIED.

Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 11 August 1909, Page 70

UNSATISFIED.

I sit within my roorffl alone When all the house is slill. And Memory makes the mind her Qwat And bends the stubborn will. The well-remembered faces come Beside me as of yore; The well-remembered voices — dumitt For years — I hear once more. We clung together, they and I, As years drew slowly on; A ' sudden shadow crossed ihe sky, Then passed, and they were gone. The clouds rolled back, the sun shon* through, And quiet followed strife; Hope's rosj radiance flushed anew The barren path ol life. The love for wliicli I yearned so long? To-day is mine at last; The doubts that seemed so dark and Btrongl Have vanished with the past; But grief and gladness, strangely blent, Within the heart remain, One wins it back from disoontentj, But one renews its pain. Oh, friends ot youth, the loved, th« lotfEl Whose work on earth ia done; We trod a path by sorrow crost, But yet our hearts were one. And -this new love, so strong, so sweet. The best of all below, • Would find its fulness more complete If you could only know. - -L g HA3nioeife