ALONE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 5, 28 April 1880, Page 4

ALONE.

Alone by the ocean at even to wander, When eoft o'er the waters the moonbeams

are cast; To hear some sweet voice in the billows' deep thunder, And dream of the fast-fading scenes of

the past. To live o'er again through the days that are numbered,

With all the bright visions too quickly

dispelled ; To call back sweet dreams from the grave where they've slumbered, And fancy the pleasures that Fate has

withheld. ~Man thus is not lonely — for time cannot sever The charm that unites us in memory's

chain ; Though Death the sweet voice may have silenced for ever,

Bemembrance can waken its accents

again. "The friends and the loves that by distance are hidden,

The days that were lit with the fulness

of bliss, Will return, by the fond voice of Memory bidden,

And cheer the sad soul in a moment like

this. Then marvel not ye who in crowds find

your pleasure, That Solii ude's silence for pain can atone ; Tor Life's brightest gems are in memory's treasure, And Heaven seems nearest when man is alone!

— Geoege Earnest.