Original Verses.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 573, 22 January 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)

Original Verses.

[T« following ««rt win written by Archibald F*itlU, pn ter »od bookbinder a n»tlTe o ' th» SeottUh border aud who U now ftjia lo f "»J««««>»rr iDitruoior In prints » nd „b uo^ bi . Q h d . i t Q| L™ O»ffrarU. Central Al.lc», nnrtor th« ft«»^» Vl Uiionurr ncMv On le«Ti D g EoßUnd for the tc»a» of hU mltiloo.ry Üboan the author let th . '« llo """C line., m » memenlo of i»rer»J ye«» c » m 'J* nl ? n p" p In th« itme hoait of buiine.* ia the rth . cf , n K '.. Dlfl»ndD Ifl»nd1 fl»nd with hU friend, who U now employed In th« offlo* of the AackUnd Kv«m-o Star j

MA.LH4M TABN. Whan !wt I f»« thy boiom Mr 1 he Mphyri fanned tb» »Yening W, Toe bin* Mill noddvd In the lireez* Tfcrt llcutly itlrred ths >I»rk pi*t tree*, Beild* »w«»t Milh»m Th»rtyl«* otfollad In th» blue, And lUhUy f«ll tb« «Tening dew; Tht HntwulU told hli ule of 1 jt«, And foltly coo*d the cu«h»t do»«. B*nid« d«»r M*lhim. Tni ittlint ««">. w"" 1 ' red » Dd ,s oW « Lltnp thy w*tej like liquid gild. A«d ie-med to k.«i ibaeM t'^ou l»y. Er« nljht .cllpsnd th« «od of jj*y. And dimmed f*ir .vi»ih»m. Yet when f»lr Lun» ihed her Jig". And myrUd •»« were twm<iuiß Drignt, I jondly Hi nred by thr ibore. And Mdly thought thit I nomo« Shoald ••• t*lr M»lh»m. No cb»me, no tlm«, no iMae, n j pUct Cm c #r my lo»« for the* eff»<.«i And of v thi mem'ry 7»t doth tr»oi Ihy h«»th' r »hor« -K»ln woaial P»» Beildt ifrcit Mtlbtni. Thy fllMr tld« I>e wiled o'er. And dipt In thet th» »«hen o*r, While lautlc lot t did lightly ioir, And gneutly echo round thr share, Belorei Millikai F«Tewoll, thou liquid gem, »dleu I And you, y« wild tl iw«r« red,»nd blot, G >oil-byi, «»ch aouaUln nook »nd aeu, I bid you »U » long farewelJ AdUu, de»r M*ln*m ! * A b«au f lful l*ke.

H»rk to the mti«ic of th« stream, Tb»t ««atly flo»t« «lo«s B»n*»th th« moon'f uuclou leu beim It iinjt Us •vioiouf. The »h«»DT w»r«loU ripple o'er Tb» tnnd* wnereon they flow ; All »weeily ki« tho pibbif »hot« With niurmnn ioft aud low Now rUim with th» b*lmy breez*, It pams throujb th« rale ; Asd wlodi MQont th» U»fy trt^s Th»t quirer in th» gale. It leems to ilng * jojoui la/ Un(o (h« «itbore*l t «ia, WhkU «• not he»rd by li?ht 0 day, Bat In U« «T«'t reft»la^