AT THE CONCERT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2152, 24 April 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

AT THE CONCERT.

I saw her one night at "The Garden," 'Twas during the Patti furore ; She had trod on, but sued for ray pardon, The glove I had dropped on the floor j And ho. stately .she looked, mid so ' queenly, My heart with her beauty was won, And a blank fell on all, as serenely She rose when the music was done. Ah me, though I'm twenty years older, And fortune has used me but ill, And the world looks both sadder and colder. I think and dream of her still. And in faith I am true to her only, From the many I keep her apart; And I look on her face when I m lonely, In the innermost core of ray heart. Though forgotten the Greek and Latin, I muttered in times that are gone, I remember her dresj was of satin The colour a delicate fawn; I remember, to-day, as completely Each trifle my lady did wear, E'en the rose that was blushing so sweetly, Half hid in her glory of hair. Ah ! Time shall be powerless in laven Her life with the ills that we know, !For her locks shall be dark as the raven While mine are as white as the snow, And her face shall be young in her beauty, While mine shall be wrinkled with care — "With.Jiae manifold burdens that Duty, Has, set for the wisest to bear. And her words, though so long ago spoken As freshly shall breathe their surprise ; And the spell still remains all unbroken, And flashed from her beautiful eyes. And ( thus, in my joy and ray sadness, Unchanged, as the years cob and flow, I shall see her arrayed in her gladness, As I saw her that night long ago. — Casaell's Magazine.