WHOSE CHOICE.
Some face* sivr> supinely fair, Some sparkling in their splendour ; ( Sjme are demure an'l debonair, And some divinely tender. Some win via with one fatal »!ance, From c) es 100 br'u;} .tly beaming.' • Sf> mi» 8 nilii that bring? a Uauce, Till life is lost in dj earning. Some flit before us, tweet and gay, To fill om heairs with l.mgluer, Then fade as laneic-. fado awajy ' ! ■And leave jio achings after. And some— some faces, sorrow kissed, * When holiest thoughts are thronging, Comeback, co.ne always in that mist, ' Qf everlasting longing. So faces come and faces go ; Some we nuke existent fiweotcr ; And some, (hoy malve it sad, \yo know, "Yet heiutr spil, complefcer. Until one face comes up at last. (Heaven know s each heart; don't dpubt it)— -The fntme la '.c-, the past is past ! Wo cannot live 'without it. We ask not ii men call her sweet. Or fuii", or wise, or clever ; We a«k, we pas^onately entreat, "Will you he mine for eier?"
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 404, 21 September 1889, Page 8
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170WHOSE CHOICE. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 404, 21 September 1889, Page 8
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