Poetry. LOVE AND DEATH.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1577, 12 August 1882, Page 5

Poetry. LOVE AND DEATH.

iWhat comfort this to souls that dread their fato Though in thick darkness long their i imago lie, • Oblivion shall be lighted soon or late By some unknown, unconscious passerby. I, on thte way to meet new love and fair, * Clinging to nought in heaven or earth beside, Pelt my dead love returning, unawaro, 1 To seize the heart where reigned a 1 ' breathing bride. For 10, there passed mo, on my altered course, A stranger, who, dospito tho strangoness, wore — What stemmed new passion with a painful foree — The semblance to my bride of years before. Not this tho face or figuro of my dead, More or less lovely — ah, that matters not: Like bora, tho way of bpeech, the turn of hoad, Tho wordless something not to be forgot. Had this remainder come when loba was new, How my heart then quivered with regret, Aud cross-like anguish thrust me thiougli and through That her own self could nevermore be met ! But now, warm lips to greet mo in an hour Dismissed the wish for heis, long turned to du&t ; Tlio past surrendered to the present's power, Aud I, to-day, grudged nob the grave its trust. Instead of that, the thought flashed like a bolt. Shocking my sense of faith and love Miicero — Nay, like a ciimc fiom which I would revolt— "Tho day has come you would not have her here." I had been bine, \wth giief at awful height, That other love could ncvci , never be ; Both law and gospel givh'j? amplu light, I fetai t to-day at time's alchemy. — Charlotte 7We JhiU*, vi the Atlantic Monthly,