An Autumn Love.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1845, 3 May 1884, Page 6 (Supplement)

An Autumn Love.

Oh ! life was sweet when we both wore young, Aud the fond word slipped from the ready tongue, Aid I lored you— loved you doarlj ; When just each other was all we had, Aud I was a young girl, fair and glad; And you were a gay ami handsome lad ; My own ' ray own ' s,o nearly. ii. Oh ' life way sweet wh3u wj both were young, Aud heart with heart m a rapSuro clung, And love had a springtime glory ; Wheu nothing but joy was over plauu'd, And Buuahme flooded the pleasant land, And we walko 1 together hand in hand, Telling the old sweet story. in. I know not, dear, how the sorrow came ; I ctvunot tell who was most to blnme ; But the waiting words wore spoken ; The words that sent me away from thee : I followed a woeful destiny, Went weeping over the wklp, wide sea, And felt that my hearfc wj.3 broken. IV. I came iv the autumn time of life After the struggle and tears and strife, After the death nnd sorrow, I came acr.un to the dear old pine:: . And lo ' I snw in thy bending face, The dawn of n late but loving gr.ice, The hope of a glnd to-morrow. Y. Oh ! love is sweet in the autumn time, 'Tis sweeter far than in early prime, We rest in its tender glory : Partel, our souls have never been twain, % The se.i and the years have been in vain, ' Happily now we aie telhug again The same old golden stoiy. VI. We are growing old, we are turning grey, But Love has rot ngel a single day, Love never will nge ; no never, Tears could not separate Thee and Me, The stress of life, nor the sundering sea ; We two shill love wherever we be, Shall lore, shall love forever ' Lillie E. Bart;