SELECT POETRY. A LOST DAY.
Loss ! lost ! lost ! 4- gem of countless price, Cut from the living rock, 4nd graved in Paradise ; Set round ■with three times eight Large diamonds, clear and bright, And each with sixty smaller ones, AJI changeful as the light. Lost ,• where thoughtless throng In fashion's mazes wind, Where thrilleth folly's song, Leaving a sting behind ; Yet to my hand 'twas given A golden h,arp to buy, SuGh as the white-robed choir afct»ne Tp deathless minstrelsy. Lost ! lost { lost .! I feel all search in vain ; That gem of countless cost Can ne'er be mine again : I off,er no reward, For till these heart-strings sever, I know that hes,ven-entrusted gift Is reft away for ever. But when the sea and land lake burning scroll have fled, I'll see it in His hand Who judgeth quick and dead ; And when of scathe and loss That man can ne'er repair, The dread inquiry meets my soul, What shall it answer there ?
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 132, 18 August 1870, Page 7
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162SELECT POETRY. A LOST DAY. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 132, 18 August 1870, Page 7
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