LOVE, LOVE EVER!

Waikato Times, Volume 2632, Issue 2632, 25 May 1889, Page 1 (Supplement)

LOVE, LOVE EVER!

[BY FKltnl.S'AN'l) FUKILIGKATH.] Oh love, as long as love yon can ! Oh love, as long as love you may ! s The time is coming when yo'.' will stand By graves, and weep the hours away. Be careful within your heart to nurse Warm love that fears not to be shown, As long as one other heart shall beat Warmly in answer to your own ! And if one bareth his breast to you, Repay the trust with love's kindly power ; Make sunny his days as they pass and glad, And cloud nut with sorrow one single hour. Ab, cruel words are quickly said, So keep close guard upon your tongue. " They never wero meant to wound 1" you say, But he goes on his way, and his heart is wrung. Oh love, as long as love you can ! Oh love, as long as love you may 1 Tho timo is coming when you will stand By graves, and weep tho hours away. Then yon will kneel down besido his Rra vp . . , And bury your streaming eyes—alas, They never will look on his face again ! Deep in tho long damp churchyard grass. And you'll cry, " Oh look, look down on me, Wtepiug here bv thy grave in vain I Forgive my words, if they hurt! Oh God, They never wore meant to give thee pain 1" But he sets and ho hears yon not, nor comes Again to 1 e clasped to your breast. Ah, no ! , The lip.s that kissed you so oft will no er Bay, "I forgave thee long ago!" 'Twa-i so ! L'Mig sinco 1)0 forgave you, lint still Many and many a hot tear fell » For you, and the biiti-r words you spoke ; IV,i', hush! lie. re.-,teth—with him 'tis we i 1 ! Oh lov.i, as Ion? as love yon can ! Oil love, as lout; as love you o.ny ! The time i.i coming when you will stand By graves, and weep the hours away. —Sir Theodore Martin.