ORIGINAL POETRY.
L ■■ - \ AN ACROSTIC. * Maid with the auburn locks and azure eyes, 1 Ah, dearest, why unfeeling hear my sighs ? : Regardless to my bosom’s sanguine throes } Your heart is chill to me as Lapland’s snows. r'Alas !no wealth have I-to offer thee ; »No costly gifts from spicy Araby ; \ No peerless gems from India’s suimy land; '.Else than my heart, which is at thy e«sa*mand. (Heaven is—at least to me—wheree’V thou; art. ■ Ecstatic joy pervades my liope-sick heart f When thy lov’d, worshipp’d, face I gaze upon:; ; Its bright and cheerful smiles, like April’s sun. } To budding nature, makes all things seem* glad ; ’ 'Tis I, who love thee best of all, am sad. J * ; : >. ■ • I Eliotts* V May 28, 1863. i —•— ——
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 7, Issue 345, 28 May 1863, Page 4
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121ORIGINAL POETRY. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 7, Issue 345, 28 May 1863, Page 4
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