Poetry
A WOMAN'S ANSWER. What shall Ido when I'm old? you say. Do you think I shall wish in vain To recall the words I have said today, When I spoke my thoughts so plain? Do you think I shall wish in my sunless lot That I had your wealth, though I loved you not? I can picture a woman, aged and poor. Toiling for daily bread. Recalling hopes she can wake no more, Romembering flow'rs that are dead. And thinking sometimes when her heart beats low. Of a happier youth-time long agdtj
I can picture her treading a lonely way Through a land whence summer has flown, Bearing Life's crosses from clay to day, And dying at last alone, With never a friend or a kindred face To follow her dust to its restingplace. I can fancy this; but I know to her heart Shall never a wish come nigh That she had chosen the easier part Of wealth that is bought with a lie. And bartered her faith, a sordid th : nor. For fear of the sorrow that age mi.-ht bring.
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 701, 10 November 1909, Page 2
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183Poetry Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 701, 10 November 1909, Page 2
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