REMEMBRANCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 198, 22 August 1874, Page 2

REMEMBRANCE.

I think of thee When the soft voices of the nightingales, In sweet and plaintive warblings to the night Ring through the vales. ** When thinkest thou of ihe ? I think of thee By the cool waters of the shaded fountains ; While, in the shimmering rays of twilight glow, Glisten the mountains. Where thinkest thou of me ? I think of thee With many tender hopes and anxious fears, Passionate longings for the one I lovb, And burning tears. : How thinkest thouxif me ? O, think of me Until we meet again some happier day. Till then, however distantly my feet may roam, Still shall 1 think and prjiy Only of thee! GETTING PERMISSION TO BE MARRIED. A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Herald writes as follows: —“ Here is a good story which has not yet found its way into print, but for the truth of which 1 can vouch. Lord George Gordon, a young man about four and t wenty, wishing to marry a certain young lady, went quite recently to ask the permission of his father, the Duke of Argyle. The duke, a pompous little man, replied in effect, ‘ My son, since our house has been honored by being united with the royal family I have thought it right to delegate a decision on all such matters to your elder brother the Marquis of Lome. Go therefore and consult him.’ The Marquis of Lome on being applied to, said, ‘ My dear brother, in a case of importance like this 1 think it right to ask the decision of the Queen, the head of the royol family into which 1 have married.’ The Queen, on the matter being laid before her, declared that since her terrible bereavement she had been in the habit of t aking no steps without consulting th© Duke of Saxe-

Coburg, the brother of her deceased husband. To the duke, then, the case was referred, and from him a letter was received telling his dear sister-in-law that recent political events had induced him to do nothing, even as to giving advice, without the express concurrence of the Emperor William, before whom he had laid the matter. The Emperor William wrote a long letter, declaring that though he was surrounded by councillors there was one only who had on all occasions proved himself correct, loyal and faithful, and without whose advice he (the Emperor) would give no decision. Therefore he referred the mat ter to his faithful Minister, Prince Bismarck. And it is narrated that when Prince Bismarck wm made acquainted with the subject, he roared out* Gott in Himmel, what a fuss about nothing I Let the boy marry whom he pleases as long as she is young and pretty.’ ”