ON THE MOUNTAINS.
Cold and «vhito, The full moon's light Shows every stone in the spectral pass ; Mountains high Lift to yon sky, v Boulder on boulder and mass upon mass. Their stern foreheads frowning gloomily. Cold and white, Down the grim height Rushes a torrent in maniac mirth To the lake, . Whose black depths shake And froth on their border of barren Ji earth, Where never a daisy will summer make. Cold and white, , , In the keen moonlight Gleams a knife in a murderous hapd ; Gaily on, .-' l With a light love-song On his lips, comes the victim. "Villain, stand ! By this, and by this, I avenge my Wrong!" Cold and white— Oh, fearful sight !— r A, dead face glares jit the changeless sky ; Not a sound Tells the mute profound. Save the torrent's shriek as it thunders •' - by, "•'- That ft brother's blood calls to God from . ■: i ' the grohnd i . j. —Shirley Wynne.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2155, 1 May 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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155ON THE MOUNTAINS. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2155, 1 May 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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