IN MEMORIAM.

Observer, Volume 1, Issue 12, 4 December 1880, Page 100

IN MEMORIAM.

' 'Beside the lonely Pah she fell; Beneath the dying light of Heaven, Ser.young, defenceless beauty riven, Her blood ensanguining the dell

And 'mid the bugle's warning note, And past the blazing beacon fire,

With' choking grief and burning ire, And sobs that died within the throat,

Of strong men, crushing down their pain, They bore her back where once she stood In young and joyful womanhood, To those she ne'er will greet again.

She had gone out, bright, fresh, so late Gone out, their joy, and hope, and pride, For whom they gladly would have died To keep one shadow from her fate.

Cover her gaping wounds, dark night ! Compose the fair and shapely limbs With, weeping, and with solemn hymns Bury our dead from out our sight !

Oil lay her in her mother earth ! With, reverent hands, and requiem sweet. And from the clay above her feet May wild flowers ' take their fragrant birth.

She loved them, as she loved to look On nature's loved and mystic grace Her artist pencil loved to trace The lines of that unwritten book.

So for her dark and tragic doom Soft tears, and tender memories blent, And echoes of one wide lament, Shall deck the turf around her tomb.