Original Poetry.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5073, 18 April 1885, Page 1

Original Poetry.

"GOOD NIGHT." " To each and all a fair ' Good night.'"—Scoit. . Goodnight— So, hand firm clasping hand We meetly close the day, Unconscious that the angel band Bend down to hear us say, ./•'Goodnight" In tender tones, or gravej or light; ' . • For in their Paradise all bright They never, never say " Good night.** • Good/night— From cot and curtained bed The sweet child accents come, Tired sprites, who love to tread Where daisies grow, and brown bee« hum " Good night." . . In rosy dreams each past delight • Again will bless their happy sight, ' So drowsily they liap " Good night." Good night— With parent kisses sealed s Ere nestlings seek to fly; On tented battle field Sounds like tha spirit of a sigh, " Good night." A day's work done 'gainst peaceful Right, A day of spreading dire heart-blight, Then war, laughs mockingly, "Good night."; ' - ' . Good night— Tho sailor, blythe and gay, On Ocean's heaving breast Calls, as, bedrenched with spray, He seeks his welcome hammock rest, " Good night." Aye! mountain waves, loud winda despite, Perchance aloft the cherub bright, Finds music in poor Jack's " Goodnight." Good night— - :• ■ . >. ■<\ Tho silver stars proclaim - In their own grand soft speech, . While woodland warblers frame And utter in the twilight, each " Good night.!' ' With sudden, daring, darting flight, From blackthorn hedge to cedar height, They twitter, chirp, or trill " Goodnight." Good night— O'er half the rolling earth, , O'oii luxury and wealth, , . O'er penury, and deEtfth' O'er beds of sickness, homos of health, "Goodnight." " . . ' Man's brotherhood lives in.it's might, , And man's mortality, sad "/wight"In cosmopolitan " Good night.", f . . Good night— In clasp, or glance, or tone, A.s fittest may appear, Love rendei's to its own Nor vwillingly omits the dear : " Good night." ■ ■ ■ 'Tis evergreen, and never trite, ' When loving lips or pens indite ' * The courteous and sincere' " Good night." . , ' Ahpha. Thames.