ST. CECILIA.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 161, 17 July 1886, Page 1

ST. CECILIA.

The eulkr sun with cloudless glow is beaming From deep blue heavens at the oven time, Golden »nrt erimton surset lights are streaming Above tlie landscape of an Easte- u clime. Within her lofty chamber all unheeded Pass the rich of the ciosinn day ; She sees them not-cire e\es like hera are needed To view the visions that around h-r stray. There are they hushed ; fair angels clothed in ■whiteness. Serene their faces, never washed with tears, And on htr face rt fle( t^d is 'h" brightness The heavenly radiance tha-. on theirs appears. The music wakened bv tho?e slender fingersTremulous -trams chnt g>-nrly fall and rise — Interprets well the heave. )y Lließ tViai lingers Within the soul tLat looks from those clear eyes. With fragrance rare the twilight room fills slowly, As Bottl>, stilly, on their waving Two nngel forma vmh looks devout and holy, Anear her float with noiHeleas hoverjngs. A crown of rospa, full of matchless sweetness And fsdeh ss blsom, rhey «Hntly forward boar, And as the melody bwell^ to completeness, They place it on her looc« nnd ripphug bair. But ah! they fade, they leave this earth for heaven As sofrJy dies the sweet harmonious strain ; Gone is the vision of the pf-aceful even, Only the lovr ly roses still remain ! INDA.