ESSAYS IN VERSE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1911, Page 13

ESSAYS IN VERSE

ABSENT. (For The Post). The tender green is on the stems Of every budding tree; The yellow gorse is out again, The birds sing- joyously. Tlio_ wimpling- bireain reflects the shades Of purple afterglow, And 1 am walking where you walked Full twenty years agio. The perfume of the manuka j Ts filling all the air; Brown moths, the heralds of the dusk, j Are flitting here and there. The deep blue of the distant bay, The stream's cool, rhythmic now, Are just the same as they were then Full twenty years ajjo. ! The grasses nod, th& stream flows on, The moths drift through the air, The white flower of the manuka Sends iorth its perfume raro. The fleecy cloudlets turn to gold, The seasons come and go. Ah ! shall I meet you at the close Of Life's long after-glow? -V.E.L. IF LOVE WERE ALWAYS LAUGHTER. If love wore ahvayb laughter And grief were always tears, With nothing to come after To mark the waiting years, I'd pray a life of love to you, Sent down from heaven above to you, And nevor grief coma near to you, To spread its shadow, dear, to you, if love were always laughior And grief were always; tears. But grief brings often laughter, 4nd love, ah, love brings tears ! And both lea.ye ever after Their blessings on the years; So i, dear heart, would sue for you, A mingling of the two for you, That grief may lend its calm to you, And love- may send its balm to you — For grief brings often laughter And 'ove brings often tears. -Annie Johnston Crim. Century Magazine.

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