THE POET'S CORNER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 75, 29 December 1880, Page 4

THE POET'S CORNER.

TWO PICTUBES.

X. A maiden, in a garden, dreaming Of fairy prince and halcyon days Her bead, with sunny tresses gleaming, Sowed down beneath, dim trellised ■ways. ▲ row of Bttnfiowera by a paling, A wicket left upon the latch, Asmnmer house, with woodbine trailing,

And ivy creeping- o'er the thatcb. L footfall on the garden gravel, k quickening heart, a whupered word; A youth, burnt brown with foreign travel, Come back to claim a hope deferred. O happy, happy time of Love's beginning, Hie ever we can guess that storms uve near! Sunlight glancing, buds unfolding, thrushes singing. Golden summer of the Soul and of the year I

n. A garret in a city by-way, X pale, sad woman, all alone; A •weary wanderer on Life's highway, Poor and forsaken and unknown. What need to knit the little stocking,

Or strive again for daily bread r Why set an empty cradle rocking P The neßtlmg has (or ever fled 1 41 Tea, both are gone; perchance 'tis better !" She sighs at length, " Tis better so I" Then bends to read a tattered letter,

O* tvaas to -w&tcih the iaAling anew.

Ah, bitter, bitter time of Sorrow's waking, Ere even we can dream that hope is near! .Snow is falling, flowers are fading, hearts are breaking, Weary winter of the Soul and of the year! — Violst Fans,