THE OLD HOME.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2110, 16 January 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE OLD HOME.

" Rktukx, return,'" the \nices cued ; " To your old \ alley f.ir away, Forsi>ftlyon thorn pi tide The tender lights and bhadows play ; And all thu banks are gay with (lowers, And all the lnlU me nweet with thyme ; Yo cannot find such bloom as onr-> In yon bright foreign clime !" And still " Return, return," they sung ; " With us abides eternal calm ; In these old fields, where you were young, We cull tho hearts-ease and the balm ; For us the flocks and hearjls increase, And children play round our feet ; At eve the sun goes down in peace — Return, from rest is sweet. " For me, I fcljought, the olnes grow, The sun lies warm upon tho vines ; And yet I will arise and go To that dear \ alley dim with pines ! Old lo\es are dwelling there, I b.iid, Untouched by years of change and pain : Old faiths, that I had counted dead, Shall rise, and live again. Then I nro«e and crossed the sea, And sought that home of younger days ; No love of old was left to mo (For love has wings, and seldom stays) ; But there were graves upon the lull, And sunbeams shining on the sod, And low winds breathing, "Peace, be still ; Lost things aie found in Clod."