HAPPINESS.
, f'.What didst thou say, to happiness? ! I saw lior at tby gato.!' " This said I to Happiness:' ' Thou coniest nil too NayJ.l cannotlet.iljce ip, ■ ■; « ; Whore these graves are growing green,, '' meet, tliou thyself shall say, I . That were ray .dead repose thou should'st hold thy revels gay, Thou shoulds't wonr the roso 1. Nay! I will not let thee in,. ■ Where these graves are growing greon.' " Turned she' round a little spaco, Smiled ami softly said; ' I would oven ask'a place, There abovo tliy head, To plant flowers, rayrtlo and roso, Making fair their last repose,' " So she entrance gained at last! : How could I gainsay Such request? My tears fell fast, But slio won her way; : ' And 111') rare, upspringing flowers ffioathcd to glorious sumraor bowers,; '. f'Slie.woii my grief froin mo, : Wherefore, then, complain? Miido my place of graves to to Bright witli'liope aoain, • . And, oboyibg oach behest, ' Joyfully I servo my guest."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1043, 8 April 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)
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155HAPPINESS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1043, 8 April 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)
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