GRAVES.
grave —Cltrance T. Urmy.
A mound, a stone and violets, A bird song in the air, A child that gathers flowers, and lets The wind play with its hair; A field of whnat across the hedge Rippled by fairy hands, A silver stream that downward runs To cheer the lower lands. No mound, no stone, no violots— A blue sea overhead, A sobbing wind that ncer forgets Its chanting for the dead : Beneath the stars on Summer nights That deep, blue grave, how fair, The while upon the shore the waves Beat low, as if in prayer. No mound, no stone, no violets, • No bird, no waves, no star, A IP<>t where memory forgets . What Spring and Summer are ; Deeper it lies than deep sea graves, From land and sea apart, Q grave so sad and desolate ! O within the heart!
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2131, 6 March 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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142GRAVES. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2131, 6 March 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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