CONSOLATION.
View not the passing days with saddened eyes. Strive nut to stay the cruel march of Tune. Thy life's embittered when thou du>t despair, And if thou grievest dost thou nr.t re))iue ? Speak not the vanished days of joyful Ivuis, _ . In which no recollection comes of grief or pain. Why should we mourn for that we cannot help? , The (lavs are gliding by, the moon s upon the wane. Mint then this gloomy spccl.ro ever sit Unbidden, like one's shadow, at our side ? Can we not turn the riuht hand of fate . Must Clotl.os ever spin and never bo denied ? If it bo fixed, that locks must bloach and lines must grow, Why should we fret at work the dainty arti.st due* so Hno? I like these thickly growing locks of silver grey, If'or make they not a brilliant contrast, love, to thine ? Thou lot this crabbed "scythe-bearer" draw his marks. E'en though ho made a map of our whole skia Ilo'd fail to put a line upon our hearts. 'Tih not the outward shell one bears that tells, but what within. —S. V. I'.ulletin.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2695, 19 October 1889, Page 5 (Supplement)
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186CONSOLATION. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2695, 19 October 1889, Page 5 (Supplement)
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