G00D-BYE, GOD BLESS YOU.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 408, 5 October 1889, Page 8

GOOD-BYE, GOD BLESS YOU.

1 liko the Anglo-Saxon Rpecoh Wit if its direct revealing* ; It takes :» hold and seems t«f rcaoh Fai\tJo\yn into your fpolincrs, That snine folks neom it mdc 1 know, And thoiefore they abuse U ; But 1 have npvei found it bo, ' i "Befnre nil etee I choo,x<; it. I dnn*t object that men should air The. Gillie thf\v luivp paid f<>K "With * !iw jevoir.* 'sdieu, ma cliore, 1 Far tliats* wlnt Fipih-Ij w«s mmla for ; But wlit:," a crony l;vko«'y(n)rlmnd At }virtin<» to .i(liliv«s yon, Ht* dmp-j a)] fnteitrn liiifo and Ho says. God Bloss you T Tli ; s spjuus ta ire a, wvorod phrnse, "Wiflt rovcrcii'-e iippatssioneH ; A t ! 'in^- mm" d'nvtf fiom ri<>hti>oi>a day r h Qoaintlv, liM-tiuihly fashioned.. It well biK-rmipß an h«ncsfc fuce. A voic'p ih^it"*» roiHn} nnd clieorful Its'nvs tln'^tnicTvin hi^ pi aw And punting (he wcik and fearful ; Into tho pon-l-. <; ->f the p-ars It steals \\Hli sublli' nnctioiK And yovu* he*rt honrtrt appoara ! To-wojk ft" j^r.uioim function; AixHll «l-iy Irmsr with plea»ing song It lin^eis to enres 1 * yon. I'm Ruin no hun.nn lu-art troes wiong IMiat's t«ld 'Uond.l>yo» God bless you I 1I 1 I lovp thp word's, poihaps^cmiflo Wlm'h 1 whs lpnvinsr .notix r, St md)ii<r at List in "oleinn pauseWo 1 (inked at one ;m«>thei, And I—lI — I «:nv in m.»t | njr' | seye < 5. TTn* love plip cotdd not tell me fc A iovf <M('vn:il j*ft the skies, "Whatever f.ite bpTell nio, Sho ]Mit Ihm? ttVHj« about luy neck And soothed the \»»in of toaving;^ And, though her heiurt was like, to braak* Siie spoke no words of grieving,, She let no t3ai- bedim her eye> Vor fear that uiifjht distress m©, But, kissing ihp. she snid^ •'Good bye, v And asked our God to bless me,