Original Poetry.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4916, 11 October 1884, Page 1

Original Poetry.

•'GOLD AND GBMY." ' The sweet spring day was waning, I watched the western sky, Its gorgeous splendours gaining, A real pageantry, Of gold and crimson blending Around the orb of day; In majesty descending Its glowing cloudland way. Till slowly disappearing Behind the purple hills, An after-glow of cheering ' Refulgence, Nature thrills, The shelly strand forsaking, The sea-gull wingeth free, Where not a wave is breaking Across the azure sea. The golden haze made whiter, The quiet dwellings near, The vernal spring tints brighter, The stillness but more clear, The warbling and soft cooing Of sor-g birds and the dove, Creation all seemed wooing To thoughts of peace and love. But soon the rosy lightness Fades to sober gray; On sea and shore the brightness Passed lingeringly away— Long shadows gently stealing O'er mountain,, grove, and dell, And musically pealing The deep-toned vesper bell. While past me, westward hieing, An amorous zephyr went, Whose sentimental sighing With all was nicely blent Of dark-eyed violets, dreaming Primroses, dainty, pale, Cowslips and daisies gleaming In many a woodland vale. Yet deftly meanwhile culling The snowy apple bloom, Led by the brooklet's Idling Soft whisper through the gloom, It stirred the weeping willow, And then away, away Beyond the ocean billow Sped with departing day. The bright expressive features Of that spring sunset scene, And airy vocal creatures Awoke a rapture keen, For Nature's, music filling The world with sweetest strain, My bosom's harp set thrilling To echo a refrain. > But close to sunny pleasure Aye followeth shadowy pain, And measure still for measuro Are dealing out the twain ! Thus owned I, brightly, gladly, ■The harmony trus. rare, And longed as vainly, sadly, For friends its charms to share. Alpha. Thames, October, 18S4.