LADIES'’ EXPRESS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 254, 10 March 1875, Page 2

LADIES'’ EXPRESS.

\_The Editor will lie glad to give insertion to ang local contributions from his lady frienai that may l>e considered interesting in the family circle, or to the sex general Iy.~\ o i( MY THOUGHTS RETURN TO THEE.” Whene’er at eve I muse alone, And wander far by Fancy led, To happy days I once had known, And happy scenes for ever fled — Ttrongti may fnces greet my eye, No face but thine I care see ; And passing all the others by, My thoughts, my thoughts return to thee. Whene’er at night my eyelids close Beneath the dreamland tree to rest, And gentle slumber lightly throws Her drowsy mantle o’er my breast ; When Visions, beautiful and fleet As Heaven-born, appear to me, Still o’er me steals thy presence sweet, Still in my dreams I think of thee. O ! ever, ever in my mind These fond remen.branceß will live, And evermore in these I’ll find The sweetest joy that life can give. Oh ! ever, ever in my heart Thy graven image will sojourn ; Where’er 1 am, where’er thou art, To thee, to thee my thoughts return. H. S. Why is (he letter I the most fortunate of all the vowels ? Because it is in the midst of bliss, while e is in hell, and all the other vowels are in purgatory. A pensive young man sang most pathetically at an amateur concert, “ Where are the friends of my childhood ?” Before he retired from the side of the acconipanyist at the piano, he heard a “ friend ” say quite furiously to a lady sitting by his side, “The friends of his childhood are probably in a lunatic asylum if they listened much to such a singer.”