AN ANNIVERSARY.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 93, 12 July 1879, Page 3

AN ANNIVERSARY.

In a chamber old anil oaken, In a faint and faltering way, Half a dozen words were spoker, Just eleven years ago to-day, What was bound and what was broken, Let a woman's conscience say. Half a dozon words excited, Whispered by a lover's side ; Half delighted,'half affrighted, Half in pleasure, half in pride ; And a maiden's troth is plighted, And a false love-knot is tied. lias a maiden not a feeling That can swell, and sing, and soar ? Came not o'er her spirit stealing, Thoughts of things that were before? In her heart did not revealing Tell her love was something more .' Barely half a dozen glances, Half in earnest, half in mirth— Five or six, or seven dances— What is such a wooing worth I Courtship in which no romance is Cannot give a true love birth. Passion is a pain and power, Slowly growing into might By long vigils, not the hour ; Real love is not at sight "I'is a weed, 'tis not a dower That arises in a night. Lightly is the promise spoken, Lightly is the lovu-knot tied ; And the maid redeems the token, Living at her husband's side ; And her heart—it is not broken, But it is not in its prido. With the years shall come a feeling Never, may bo, felt before ; She shall liml her heat t concealing Wunts it did not know of yoru Silently the truth revealing, Ueui love is something more.