ONLY A WAIF.
Only n waif on tho world’s highway, ' Timt tli \''crowd passed heedlessly i>y ; In winter’s rain it Rummer’s ray, No roof save the changing sky : A fair, fra.il flower l»y the world’s highway, Timt the crowd left to wither ami die. Only a waif unloved and alone, Yet a human soul was there ! And the wild wind paused in its passing moan, To toy with his waving hair ; And a message it bore from tho golden throne, That called him away from care ! Put hack the locks from his thin pale face, Folil the little brown hands on his breast; Tne cold world refused him his tiny place, So his Father has called him to rest ; Has borne him away on the wings of His grace, And his Father knows what is best.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 456, 22 March 1890, Page 8
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136ONLY A WAIF. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 456, 22 March 1890, Page 8
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