THE SHIP HAS BROUGHT NO MAIL.
When shall 1 hear from home, My home beyond the sea ? 1 low many vessels come, But bring 110 news to me. Day after day I wait, # With patience and with hope ; From early morn till late, 1 view the watery scope— The broad and mighty deep; And when a sail appears, My heart with joy doth leap, And yet 'tis lilleu with fears, Lest in my anxious need, 1 hear the old old tale. That makes my heart oft bleed, " Tin: ship has brought no mail." Thus days run into weeks, Ami weeks to months again ; Until my mind bespeaks, A state almost insane. For o'er the ocean wide, Is all that 1 love dear ; My home beyond the tide, blow oft I think of hen. There all my treasure troves, Arc lodged all time to come ; There all my early loves, Ere I began to roam. The}- live in memory, The jewels of my heart; Arid there they e'er will be, Till soul and body part. And 'neath the starry dome, That nightly shines on me ; I think of them at home, Beyond the awful sea. From them I long to hear, l.''or them I wait a sail; And may it soon appear, The ship that brings the mail. AUGUSTIKIAN Apia, Jan. 10th, 1879.
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Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 68, 18 January 1879, Page 3
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222THE SHIP HAS BROUGHT NO MAIL. Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 68, 18 January 1879, Page 3
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