SELECT POETRY, "DROWNED ! DROWNED !"

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 86, 2 October 1869, Page 6

SELECT POETRY, "DROWNED ! DROWNED !"

Into the silvery wave shoatept ; The listening breezes sighed and wept i And e/en the current as it swept Made moan. The lilies shut their petals white, And sank beneath the wave that night She stood there in the pale moonlight Alone. Her raven tresses float behind, — Float calmly on the weeping wind ; For. ever from, its seat the. miud Hath flown* She seeks beneath yon silvery wave To find a lone one's peaceful grave, Aud. he is now no, more to save Hia own* She steppeth on Into the stream, And, circling round, the pale moonbeam. Of ra,re and glistening light, did seem Her throne. She bendeth in the current strong* Upon its breast is borne along ; To, her will soon be pain aud wrong Unknown. Her white robe 3 flutter in the air ; Her spirit is go longer fchers ; And o'er her grave the lilies fair Hay* blown. AH night, above the- lonely tonjb, The waters through, that evening' gloom Make murmur at hur silent doom, Ami moan.