Ladies Express.
A LIFE CHARADE. You were a queen, and I a captive slave; My life hung trembling on your single breath ; The minions waited round ! —The sign you gave For life and liberty ; not toil or death. You were a queen, and I was still a slave— Queen of my soul, you from your height look’d down ; But though a captive I, to me you gave Your love, a treasure richer than a crown. Thus seemed it in our play ; but at the end The falling curtain clos’d the niimic scene ; Still when the starlight of your eyes you bend. On me, you reign, once more, my heart’s sole queen. We now together tread the stage of life, On which men play their many sided parts ; Less proudly, but more lovingly, my wife, We sway the common kingdom of oiir hearts.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 952, 11 June 1881, Page 2 (Supplement)
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142Ladies Express. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 952, 11 June 1881, Page 2 (Supplement)
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