LOVE'S GIFTS.
Like *Me)eaxer's torch, to me Love always wa->, and always is, Th-i fcource of ail my misery, The fount ol all my bliss. Love Rave me hours of aweet delight, Ah though I dwelt on Grecian isles. And through toe balmy, starry night, L*y lapped iu Beauty's smiles. But hourb of anguish and remorse, And gi ief that changes not nor shifts, Folly, and err^r— if not worse ; These, too, were Love's sad gifts ! The fire that dwells in woman's eyes Has warmed my heart, inspired my song, Destroyed the hopi tor which faith sighs, And beautified the wrong ! O. B. Hugo. *Meleager's fortunes, according . to Greek story, depended upon the burning of a firelirand.
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 176, 30 October 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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117LOVE'S GIFTS. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 176, 30 October 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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