WHOSE CHOICE.
Some faces are supinely fair, Some sparkling in their splondor; Some are demure and debonair, And some divinely tendor. Some win us with one fatal glance, From eyes too brightly beaming. Some smile that amile that brings a trance, Till life ia lost in dreaming. Some flirt before us, sweet and gay, To fill our hearts with laughter ; Then fade as fancies fade away, And leave no achings after. And some — some faces sorrow-kissed, When holiest thoughts arethronging, Come back, come always in that mist Of everlasting longing. Some faces come and faces go : Some make existence sweeter ; And some they make life sad, we know, Yet being sad, completes Until one face comes up ut last (Heaven knows each heart : don't doubt it) — The Future fades, tho Past is past ! We cannot live without it I We ask not if men call her sweet, Or fair, or wise or clever : We aik, we passionately entreat, ** Will you be mine for ever?" — Cassell's Magazine.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2248, 4 December 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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166WHOSE CHOICE. Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2248, 4 December 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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