HAIL ! AND FAREWELL!
Hail !' and Farewell ! Such ia the frail condition* Of earthly inter course. We meet to part. Joy perishes in rapture of fruition :' Alas ! my heart ! The flowers we gather wither in the grasping ; On beauty's cheek no fadeless lilies dwell : ° The hand we clasp grows throbless in the clasping ; : Hail! and farewell! Hail !' and Farewell !' The smile of welcome beameth' Brief as effulgent upon lovers' lips. In hope exultant youth but little dreameth Of hope's eclipse ;' Nor cares to think that. Time, who looks so radiant, Irdisenchnnting Fancy's magic spell, To. dust dissolving all her fairy nageant : Hail ! and farewell ! Hail ! and' farewell ! 'Tie thus each short-lived' pleasure' Fades from our vision like a phantom wan ; We turn to gaze on our new-found' treasure,. And lo I- 'tis gone !'• 'Mid the delights that we most keenly covet* Still are we startled by fond Memory's knell ;• Aye !et vale !■ Oh, my heart's beloved,' Hail l ! and farewell I-
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 11, 12 July 1873, Page 14
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160HAIL! AND FAREWELL! New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 11, 12 July 1873, Page 14
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