TO FAUSTINA.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 322, 5 December 1888, Page 3

TO FAUSTINA.

I greet thee fondly, darling, My heart's love flies to thee ; And while I linger, dreaminsr. Thy thoughts come here to mo : Thy wingei thoughts come hei?e, love, > ethow I cannot s*y ; Some spirit must convey them, And steal mine own away. Though there hath p iss'd betwixt us, Nor speech nor written word. There's still c mmunion, darling ; How are our loves t "ansferr d 1 How are our loves transferred, dear? Yet, puzzle as we will. Presentiments keep whisp ring The augury is ill. That shapely head, how drooping, With heavy thought down-wefgh'd ! Some prescient pow'r liath shown thee, The TrouvcreH thine, then, maid'? He is ! he 1 ,yes tl>ee/darlinß, ( "' And might confess himself! But ah !he cannot wed thee ! - ' For when had Trouveres y < pelf ? ' Yet, he this as it will, love, Thy form seems here ahvay 1 ; ' And aye a saintlier halo Doth, round thy features playDoth round thy features play, lovei A prophecy to me : Gales shall buffet me to wreck. But Heaven will harbour thee ! * Trouvercs, troubadours, lyrists, improvise tores. Lancelot Fewster. . Chapel-street, Auckland.

From £6;000,000 to £8,000,000 worth of old jewellery- lies 4d'e in- England, and various firms have begun to melt it down to make new patterns. ■ > • A despatch in^the' •« Gazelte 5 -' nbtifies that Her Majesty-in^Council'^has extended the Foreign, Deserters Act^lBs2,-to 'the Independent State of the' Congo/ • ,■ ' - - :,_: ,_