GOLDEN MEMORIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 266, 10 November 1888, Page 3 (Supplement)

GOLDEN MEMORIES.

" We look before and after; We pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With 3ome pain is fraught, Our sweetesf- songs aro those tnat tell of sad1 dest thought." Shelley. Whether I rove beneath the cheerless glooma Of wintry skies, Or idly stray where semi-tropic blooms Salute mine eyes, The golden memories of one, treasured eve Are potent still, Within my raptared spirit to enweave Delight at will. That evening fair, my love, when once agaii Perchance we met, After long years of misery and pain, And keen regret, As though the irony of rate, forsooth, Had thcs decreed To crown the nameless passion of my youtn With some slight meed. It was the month of June, when jewelled skiel Shine brightly clear; ... Attuned to love were zephyr's softest signs In fancy's ea.r; The odorous bloasoms gemmed the leafy sprays In every glen; As vale and woodland rang with vesper-lays, Divinely then! We met thatnight where youth and beauty vied With choicest song, To charm the rosy hours that onward niea In light along; Each moment then was fragrant witn,a bliss Too strangely sweet I cannot utter it 1 feel but this In all I meet! 'Twas thou I gazed upon, thy fair young face Possessing still The nameless magic of its virgin grace, To charm at will; Although each-lovely and endearing smile! That flitted there, Lite wintry sunbeams could but glance the While On my despair. Yet it was sweet, yea, passing sweet f to me, Once more to view The faceand form thatdulcedmy heart with gifts When life was new; The kisses sweet, whose sacred impress Btul Within me lives., Are like a talisman through good and ill That solace gives. Sweet, though the pleasure of a passing hour Must bring to me, A life-long bitterness of subtlest power I cannot flee; The phantom of a bliss pursued in vain I now recall, A moment's sweetness in an age of pain, For that is all! A. W. HUEET. Helensville.