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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 196, 2 November 1871, Page 8

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A WOMAN'S LOVE A sentinel angel sitting high in glory Heard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory . " Have meicy, mighty angel, hear my story ! 14 1 loved, -and, blind with passionate love I fell. Love brought aye down to death, ami death is - Hell. For God is just, and death for sin is well. , " I do not rage against His high decree. Nor far myself do ask that grace shall be ; But for my love on earth who mourns for me. " Great Spiiit ! Let me see my love again And comfort him one hour, and I were fain To pay a thousand years oi fire and paia." Then said the pitying angel, "Nay, repent That wild vow ! Looa, the dial finger's bent Down to the last hour of thy punishment !" But still she wailed, " I pray thee, let me go ! I cannot rise to peace and leave him so. O, let me soothe him in his bitter woe 1 " The biazen gates ground sullenly ajar, / And upward, joyous like a laising star, Sfiie rose and vanished in the other far. ** u t soon, adown the dying sunset sailing, And like a wounded bird her pinions trailing, -She flutteied back, with broken-hearted wail-

ing. She sobbed,-" I found him by the summer sea Keclined, his head upon a maide's knee, — She curled his hair and kissed him. Woe is me ! " She wept, " Now let my punishment begin ! I have been fond and foolish. Let me in • To expiate my sorrow and my sin." The angel answered, "Nay sad soul, go

higher ! To be deceived in your true heart's desire Was bitterer than a thousand years of fire ! "

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