Selected Poetry.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1587, 29 April 1887, Page 4

Selected Poetry.

FIEELTGHT. The shadows come and go In the firelight's fitful glow, As from heart of crimson bright Dart the leaping tongues of light ; Bays of sunlight buried long, Bunting forth in tuneless song, Like a long forgotten art Hid in chambers of the heart, That no mind returns once molt, But not perfect as of yore. To illurr e and warm they try At they did when from the sky They were sent in radiance bright Golden beams of powerful light; And in their feebler fitful glow The shifting shadows corre and go. THE DISTANT SHORE. She tits on the sea-shore idly, Though her work it upon her knee, And her eyes and her thoughts hare wan-1 dered Far away o'er the sun-lit tea ; She sees in her fevered fancy, And the bean in the billow's roar, A form that the loves, and a meesage Of hope from the distant shore. She sits on the sea-beach watching, Though yean have pasted away, And she trusts, though her heart is breaking, And her hair it turning grey. She heeds not tbe wild wsves' mocking, At they murmer " He'll come no more;" But the waits for a lover sleeping '.Neath the waves en the distant shore. Tbe billows are wildly tossing Their waves on the pebbly stnnd, But tbe watches no more their fury. With her thoughts on a distant land. She'll tit by the sea no longer, Shell wait bit return no mon ; She has gone from this world of parting-' They have met on the Golden Shore.