THE IMAGE IN THE NIGHT.
I see ft maiden in the night. Beside a parapet of gold ; ' Her face is -patient, calm; and white. Her eyes are large, and black, and bold, A wondrous beauty sad and sweet, As moonlit swathing clouds that meet. Long.years I've seen this maiden stand, With glandes ever fixed on me ; She moves not either arm or Jiand, ' And at her feet there seems to be A river, prankt with flowrets wide, Upon whose breast no shadows ride. She" stirs not x but is ever still ■ As saint in some stained window seen, When sunbeams all its features fill . With an umvitvering diamond sheen : But there are changes in her eyes, Like throbs of stars in midnight skies. Only to me her form appears— In darkness I can see her best ; Sometimes I fancy there are tears As white as pearls upon her breast, That she has shed because I'm here, And she's in heaven- ah, happy therei! It is the image of a maid I loved on earth long; long ago ; Whose memory in my heart is laid, There buried— buried sweet and low. She'll watch me till my life is o'er, Say, what can love, true love do more ?
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 217, 28 March 1872, Page 7
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206THE IMAGE IN THE NIGHT. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 217, 28 March 1872, Page 7
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