Poetry.
WHY? I WOSBEB why, liz months ago, When we two met to say good-bye, And roses tasead their scented enow To wooing winds that whispered ni <fa : When lunbjibt fell in glittering showers The Wogsom-Udsn boughs among, And all the ruth was bright with fiowerp, And an the air was glad with song: That, even though you bent and kissed The tear To 1 cloud npon my face, I only saw a worfd cf mi-t, Whfeft held no beaoty and no grace!
I wonder why, now days are cold, And no gay wing the coppice stirs; Now mow lies thickly o'er the And mournful winds are in the firs : Nor sun. nor bird, nor flower I miss, Because at the old place we stand (There are no tears for yon to kiss), And oooe more whisper hand in hand: That though the earth is wrapped in gloom, And leaden clouds shut out the sky, My world seems filled with light and bloom And summer warmth —I wonder why I E. Mathesox.
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 502, 3 January 1906, Page 2
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172Poetry. Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 502, 3 January 1906, Page 2
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