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Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5173, 15 August 1885, Page 1

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BABE CHRIST ABEL.

She grew, a Bweet and sinless child, - In shine and shower, —calm and strife; A rainbow on our dark of life, From Love's own radiant heaven down* smiled. In lonely loveliness she grew,— A shape all music, light, and love, With startling looks, so eloquent of Tho spirit burning into view. Much mystic lore was in her eyes, And light of other worlds than ours, She lookt as she had fed on flowers, And drunk the dews of Paradise. She dame—like mnsic in the night Floating as heaven in the brain, A moment oped, and shut again, And all is dark where all was light. We sat and watched : by Life's dark stream Our love-lamp blown about the night, With, hearts that lived as lived its light; And died as died its precious gleam. In Death's face hers flasht up and smiled, ■ As smile the young flowers in their prime, In the face of their grey murderer Time, And Death for true love kist our child. She thought our good-sight kiss was given, And like a lily her life did close; Angels uncurtain'd that repose, And the next waking dawn'd in heaven. 1854. Gbrald Massby.