SELECT POETRY.
«n£ year ago. Last year, under the chestnut trees, Under the chestnuts white, Two of us walked, two of us talked ; "Would it were to-night 1
Two were the voices, tremulous, sweet, Two were the heads bent low ; Two were the hands together clasped, One, white as the flowers-snow. One year ! But a year, when all is told, Twelve months and a day 1 no more - Yet my footsteps 'fag, and my .youth seems* old, And my seared life feels founcore. Two were the hearts iihat together Iwat, Two were the hearts, "yet one ; Two were.the figures 'that interlaced, Strolled, 'neath those trees, "in *he sun. Those trees, those leaf -laden, "bloom-strew-ing trees, That glorious sun of June i Now they strike the golden chords of my souL- i
Sound sweet on it love" 1 * own tune.
Ah, leaves ! ye fall and grow green again, Nor mourn for the spring-time fled ; Ah, trees ! ye bloom in another June, But the life of my life is— dead !
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Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 31, 12 September 1868, Page 5
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168SELECT POETRY. Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 31, 12 September 1868, Page 5
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