ORIGINAL POETRY.
. IN" MEMORIAL. *v -* ■ - ""-" . j«. \ Oh, horo lies low tho loving wife— 1 My Mary that J 100 ; i She lies within tne narrow bed ) "Vyiicro I ttxaun soon lie too. Death's olay cauld hand has still'd tho hoarfc That nye was kind and truo : The form o'er which I fondly hung— I think I see her noo. I've naobody noo to live for, i And the world is nought to me ; : Oh, Hfo's a weary pilgrimage, My Mavy, wanting thoo. Palo, palo, for over, nro tho&o lips That I huo often kissed ; And oauld for ever are thoso cheeks That I h«o often i>rossed. ; Oh, vroll I know tho blissful homo ' In which she now doth dwell, • 1 !»- yon bright land vrhore happy ones Their holy anthems swell. . Where saints in glory ever sing ( To God who reigns on high ; { "Whero sorrow novennoro is known, I JTor teal's bedim the eye. But I am left alor.o on earth, ' My grief I cannot hide ; And I will no'or find peace or rest TjiU slumbering by her side. Till then my boating heart bo still, Which now in sorrow lies ; Oh ms»y I soon lie blest with her, Beyond yon sunay skio3. G.R.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 37, 24 October 1868, Page 6
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203ORIGINAL POETRY. Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 37, 24 October 1868, Page 6
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