The Wedding Eve.
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"Hushed atid'silent r iNo longer the dancers tread. ' With warm loving hands a mother , Takes.the/flowers;from;|-fair; young head, """" Now ribwly and with timid footsteps, ' '"',"'; . She passes.the carpeted stair.. Alas! the steps of the maiden . ■ ' Will never again linger'there,'. Trembling with love's fond emoi ■ ■'■ tion, -. •. ■■„ ~ r
Her silken .robe sweeping, the . floor, ■-,:'. ■ .; . ." '.;! She makes an Australian picture As alio stops at the open door, But see, she has left of her. presence ."'.'■" A token most rare and sweet,' ;: A spray, of the goldon wattle : Has fallen at Tier feet. ' : \
May good angels watch o'er her slumbers—:: .•_•..; Reposed on the loved one's breastHas she left life's brightest. mo> ments Without, where the blossoms rest?
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 958, 24 December 1881, Page 2 (Supplement)
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116The Wedding Eve. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 958, 24 December 1881, Page 2 (Supplement)
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