tWO SUMMER EVENING.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 3, 29 February 1868, Page 4

tWO SUMMER EVENING.

' jJ ß^i»! js the < ojßsrd"pidh I wandered - . • JusTa yesr^o-; • Wandered with my cTKsen lover, s tangled bough's green cover, " ' 'Mi*H&e sunifet glow ! **For a ra&fwice niisty, moted, JPtJyjo' the leaves around us floated ; Bui ttur. souls within were bright yet diviper light. SWinderirig o*n, my h'&sdless^ingers »-j Caught a vagrfint-spra/; ' -' Frbui a bush a^bird iokh fluttered, Short sharp riotH-orefear it uttered As it flcJ awaj\* ; - Thru my lovey parted deftly fApi kigy, ltriiricue*, rightly— leftly, Till, cieVy in t lie shrub's green breast, L .j- ilioclosed :i tiny nest. "' W O .-cr it v j>g*t ffcgebher - •Cent •>' . 1 cij^ious eye. ■ ' It w.is vdov6n' JUce a basket, - - Sof lly 4ia£3*JS^jewel casket, ¥ r J&S lvl ~ a N "W' ll "?H and dry. ,*"Jfn^s|f r casket3a a treasure viSt* Sa&Cors gold nor gems could measure ; llp^j&i- it lid i a pearl instead, ****^Fl,iwless and- white — life's priceless seed. Round id y w ai' tan arm had stolen, T.'hoce I need not tell ; And a warm, a balmy breathing, Stirred the ciuis my head enwreathing EtirrcJ 11-y curls as well ! Tor niy love, in whispers thrilling "^V'irh the joy his bosom filling, Spake, " Ere next these birds shall nest, "We " — his kisses said tho re. 1 "Well, once 11101 c jibe summer ets In their beauty blush ; ,1 JJ y J fi f .--ii^tr"M? 3 w.ii u k" - --- ' Forth, o . % v u-s ,0 pc\wtr, In tli: 1- i. . . 3 hush. J"o one spot -i»y wandering brings me, And a swift- winged memory stings me, * Tor withiu that well-known shade Eirds again have built and laid. But my ardent last year's lover Far away is he ! j ,m, m Half so far seas could not bear him, .Further off death could not tear him — I Farther off from me ! I For a fickle heart can sever Ties which else had held for ever ; ' Aijd te me the birds in vain, Sing, '"Tis nesting time again."