Alone.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1845, 3 May 1884, Page 5 (Supplement)

Alone.

1 miss you, mvdailiuir, mj d.uhng ; The embeis bum low on the health , And stilled is the stir of the household, Aud hushed is the ■v oice of its ninth ; The mm plashos fast on the terrace, Ttft) winds past the lattices nioau ; The lmduighl chime? out fiom the minster, And I am alone I want 3 on my darling, my daihncr ; I am tned with care and with fict; I would nestle in silence beside j on, And all but 3 our presence fonjot, In the hush of the happiness g-iven To those, who thioutjh ti listing have grown To the fulness of love in contentment, But I am alone. I call you, my dnihu^r, uij darling 1 , My voice echoes back on my hea.it. I stretch mj arms to j on in louring, And lo ! they fall empty, apait I whisper the tweet words jou t.uitjht me, The woids that we only ha^o known, Till the bl.iuk of the dumb nir vi l)itter, FOl I am alone I need you, my darlinjr, un darling, With its yciirnmi; m 3 oi.\ heai t achcb ; The lond that divides us we'iijhs harder ; I shrink fiorn the jar that it makes. Old sonows 1 lse \\\> to beset me , Old doubts make my spiiit their own Oh, come thiough the dniknot.^, aud save me, For I am alone. — IwcJiuiiiji