FIRST LOVE.
Whom first we love, you know, wo seldom wed. Time rules us all. And life, indeed, -is not The thing we planned it out ere hope was dead And then we women cannot choose our lot. My little boy begins to babble now Upon my knee his earliest infant prayer ; He has his father s eager eyes, I know, And they say, too, his mother's sunny hair. But when he sleeps and smiles upon my knee, And I can feel his light breath come and go, I think ot one— Heaven help and pity me— , '" Who loved me, and whom I loved long ago; But blame us women 1 not iJE some appear Too cold at times and some too gay and ftgkt Some griefs gnaw deep ; some woes are hard to beai\ Who knows the past? and who can judge us right? Owen Meredith.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 408, 5 October 1889, Page 6
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147FIRST LOVE. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 408, 5 October 1889, Page 6
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