TWO LOVES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2155, 1 May 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

TWO LOVES.

. I heard a poet singing when the dawn Broke like a silver fountain from the * Whose million drops plashed on the daisied lawn, ■> And wet the crimson roses growing by. "0 Earth," he sang, "0 beautiful bright Earth, No' worm is at thy core, as doll hearts * » say— J'Fair m when distant teons jfivethee birth, L'^Tbousiuilest sunshine on thy children's *- i w.ay! t '**■!#% graybeards prate of sorro\r, nigh j'" their tombs, i 01 Heav'n's sole bliss, on earth the serpent's trail — » ~-,of dangers lurking in the flow'r-perfumes, j „r , Of fleeting joys, false loves, and beauties >> • #»»!• „ ffiFor me* lam full happy. Here is space ' „, Enough for widest bliss; gay youth is' ,• i mine; Jwd all I need of Heav'n — in Julia's face ; ' ' And all I need of love— her love divine." At night I wandered through the garden bow'rs, j. When the spent airs died, shiv'ring on , thesfronnd, And strange, bewild'ring scents rose from the flow'ra, And all the hills in purple mist were drowned. " Uif wring, I heard the tender voice of one Who tang amidst the shadows; over1 ' head stars began to gleam, as they were come To listen to the words the poet said. «&> Heaven," he sang, "the ltraps are all alight Upon thy portals ; would the hour were ' COme XL I Tor me to leave these lonely path* of night — t , For me to rest me in my Father's Home ! ** Father, Thy presence thrills the depths of space ; I yearn to see Thy glory cloudless shine. . Tis all I need of Heav'n— to see Thy face ; And all I need of love— Thy love divine 1" - — —Shirley Wynne.

Ik Philadelphia a guild of kindhearted ladies has been formed to do mending for bachelors, at low rates.