RETROSPECT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 30 May 1914, Page 9

RETROSPECT.

l f>ay after day, hour .after hour IT^f (ft ed m? mo *ument of folly rise Unto the grinning skies. 7 * Until^its top was bathed in hSven's And then one stone— One careless, ill-laid stone, found l*° fUin- In th» m«™ I Mj ground. -SWr6cked *-**» the I struck a chord on my lyre md sang myself a eon.o- J JQ' and And to the listening throng I tojd^my tale; I told ho# love and f^V^r? opposed, to fate; Ixoimd S and death- F™m The peoole came, charmed by the swelling sound. y ie And then one word— One harsh, ill-chosen word— tbffloor 8 6P6H- My ***> fell *> AlXdnJ more dUmbj for * s l>eak 1 *?*,£? ni^lS: £ard^ and «•« (Our tryst the moon above), And was it tbe scented Iotr« in the air Or yet her fragrant hair? ' Cdiv?ne tell~but ' °h' the th°u^ and alika And then one kiss— One foolish ill-timed kiss— 6 nigllt- A drifting veil was thrown b alone. "^ "' * &nd * as left D. G. P., in the Australasian.