Ladies Express.
THE DREAMS OF OLDEN TIME. The world’s dark forests yet untrod, As at Creation’s birth, When favoured prophets spake with God, And angels walked the earth. All silently the deserts lie, Unstained by human crime ; How dimly flit their shadows by,— The dreams of olden time. A thousand years —fair idols bend O’er many a graceful shrine; And all the glories Art can lend In dazzling splendour shine ; With all the light and melody Of sunny Grecian clime ; — How beautiful to fancy’s eye The dreams of olden time I Then comes the pomp of chivalry, And many a warlike deed: The cross and crescent floating high, Proud knight-and prancing steed ; The memories of that feudal age That light the poet’s rhyme, And fling upon the golden page The dreams of olden time. A thousand and a thousand years, Their darkening shadows cast ; The cities man so proudly rears Are visions of the past. The changing forms of land and sea Earth fading from her prime; And England ! shall thy fame but be A_ dream of olden time ? > .
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 907, 8 January 1881, Page 2
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179Ladies Express. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 907, 8 January 1881, Page 2
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