Select Poetry.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4514, 23 June 1883, Page 1

Select Poetry.

THE t?HILI>HEiTB COUWTB^ Bhe is Bitting very Bil©«t, in k«r lil*le crim- ; ion chair, ' '"' '.• ,'; "C"": ;"';'';';''. With the flatter of the firelight on her* pretty golden hair, > And all iteatttnt thing* mcfMHutd tar:; b»t .- ' her thought. »»6lherihe».T ■ ' For theee little lad» an^ laseies haw a ■j ■ country of their mwi;-.* :j'-i:'.j\v-...v, 1 ; • Wh»«/wi«H^ttarti^-^Je, they may WMderoffaloae, • ■•• .", --^.--.y; Into/dim and region*,-'thai -wewr. ! never^naaalptlbr.kßovfn.,' ;•;' . = -.. : .■, ''. ..' . They are wearied with the qunatiooa and the running too and fro, For someone is always saying, "Yettmußt - ■ ,i come/ or XjXoa- nnwt■ gp/f. -:: '^:' r :.-;■ . ,- '^You ; fnuist spelk and i write . r^^* .isifei^pr v ' tviiißijjt^qr^AißMp"imi^-^ok^-^^--- - h „ iEW th^tH»^ 4ve^ ■' v-!.fdWat»-|»>..tl»BtfssjSites^>:hjofv^-^.^ And the name* of all the Mlanda, jmsl il» ;. -; > 6ceana,'aiid thestateß .;j' ;ir \-,S^,-^ ; :;:: \^;;\- Are forgotten, in a;momentvrhentbay Me the shining gates. . U " Of* their own d^igAtfnt c^ntry whari they .. : wander ds they pleaite,' ' 's;; <s'^.- $■■■'■, On the great'enohante^ inoantaißij';6r be.' ■ '. noath the forest trees, U-M^^y]'<ts:iQ. 'I::-" With a thonaand other chiUtren, all "entirely at their ease, t ■'•^•-- ";: ::- -■■' ;•■-'-.-.. '•_. OhV thehappy, iappy childreß !-da they>Mr j- ; ■ for anything/ '•! N:! ,'■■*.*• Vl' 'IT '.-.^;":s. '-' Book or bird, or boat or picture, silken dress ■, ••". *'.or golden-ring? V T ; .'■-■:,' -<^:- ' .'■' Ljp! a little page willhasten and the tratfore Wl~- atraigjlt:will bring; j :-;:..;,,■;■:.;,!.■:''>'.:"' It is,strange the older people can not find this land at all; ■ . If they ev«rknewitalaitiguage,i<^fasisi^'■'?:- ---> yond recall;'':-i^;-'--';^-. -:'^o-,.{ , And they only in their dreamingß, hear, its"' - : _ ; mfiicriseindlali.' *:*§ ™. Oh! the riches of thW fihiidren^ wSth i&ti : country for their bwnr AH the splendour of ife'oagtleß, e*ery flower v i and precious atdnei ('*'•' v.': 5 :'' : Until time itself is ended, and'the worlds 1 .ju» orer-throwni.'-- *■ ■•■ >. v - - ■■• «k<,^it::.rT