MISUNDERSTOOD.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 193, 22 August 1885, Page 5

MISUNDERSTOOD.

Oh ! if you could ray spirit road, And learn how Tory dear to me lo lore's aweet sympathetic meed. Yon would not so unfoeliDK bo. If truth and lore can win return. Oh ! let mo llnd Borue token sweet; In that cold heart may tsnder germ Of lovo'a sweot fragrance kindly keep. I met you in the silent hour 01 tender thought and pensive mood; You only emilcd, ani coldly said, •' I think you havo misunderstood. " I never said you were to sit Boaids me whilo you heid my hand; I did not STen deem it fit, So please in 1 Mure understand " That you and I muot walk ipart. No more let such rash thought intrude. Till you have learned to know my heart; You really have misunderstood." Oh! With a burning senso of shame, I loft you standing at the prate. If auwht could soothe my spirit's pain, 'Twas only this. I still would wait. And let you find how true and fond The heart remains with love imbued. Say, darling, havo you changed you mind Or am I still misunderstood 1 I thought when last I chanced to meet Your little figure passing by, You looked so loving, smiled so sweot, That I yet onco again would try To win you for my own sweet lovo, And prove how deep the lovo I boar Towards ray darling, whoso reproof Once made my life ao full of care. So let me ask in tonderost tono That o'on might melt the sternest mooi, " Oh! can you yot my love return, Or havo I still misunderstood ?" Jenny When. Thnmnn. August 1S««.