THINK NOT I AM HAPPY.
! Think not I am ha.ppy because I am free, • For that's what ne'er was, and never cant be ; ' 'But Were we twain'wed,and my bosom confest, 1 What joy were the love of the heart-'neath thy I vest ! - ■',*!.,' v t Morose do they deem me ?so gracious tb'thee ? ' Well, what but afflictions! have suns brought, to 1 me? «.''*,» ( Love, do you attemper this ruggedness now, •■ And kisses shall rain on my darling's smooth' brow. • ■ , A proud head is thine, and so 'Greek in itg. , • shape; 3 * • > , 'Ah, faultless Eliza ne'er Game from the ape ; ' I Though Darwin's set might, if they choose thua , to prove, ■ From angels my own love is scarce onesre-, move ! • i ,«n • ,_. «f » •Yea, wero we twain one, and my bosom confest, .Plow kind. Avore the love that is' perit-'iifcithy'v. , breast l . • • ' -; c ,)r(P I iim happy, forsooth, for that I am" free ! c, t Vi .'* iLovc, I never was yet, and never can beli -^,1 , ;■- LanceFewster.- ', Auckland. :iv
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 354, 27 March 1889, Page 3
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167THINK NOT I AM HAPPY. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 354, 27 March 1889, Page 3
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