Poetry. A Little White Hearse.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1967, 14 February 1885, Page 5 (Supplement)

Poetry. A Little White Hearse.

As the little whito hearse went glimmering by— The man on the coal-cart jerked his lines • And smutted the lid of either eye, And turned and stared at the business P signs ; id the street-car driver stopped and beat s hands on hia shoulders and gazed up street 1 hia eye en the long track reached the sky— Aa the little whife hearse ,vent glimmering by. Aa the little white hearse went glimmering byA stranger petted a ragged child In the crowded walk, and ahe knew not why, But he gavo her a coin for the way she smiled ; And a bootblack thrilled with a pleasure Btrange As a customer put back his change With a kindly hand and grateful birli — Aa the little white hearse went glimmering ) by. bAa the little white hearse went glimmering v A man looked out of a window dim, And hia cheeks were wet and hi 3 heart was dry — For a dead child even was dear to him ; And he thought of his empty life and said : " Loveless alive and loveless dead — Nor wife, nor child in earth or sky 1" Aa the little white hearse went glimmering b7b 7-

J. W. RILKY.