TO MY SWEETHEART.
ON HER SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY. This is your birthday, dearest? Dearest
wife, Fond sweetheart of my youth and of my prime, Lover and friend and comrade, in whose life I live unconscious of the flight of time!
Three score? and must we grant it bo? Why,
then Thank heaven we have tasted life thus long, For life is rich, and shall grow sweeter when Like mellowing wine, age renders it less strong. We shall grow old together, count the years, Welcome each sunrise and each setting sun; Together laugh our laugh or weep our tears, Wait, act and suffer till the sands be run. J owned Golconda and the Coast of Pearl, Being a boy—it was but yesterday: One shared my fortune, giving hers—one girlWhither, my darling, fled youth's dream away? Where are ibe morning and the wealth of spring? Gone with the *i'-fault castles! vanished, gone. The. dew t-J y<>uta we.« suDTara, and the wing Is broker now ;h*i b*r»C at gulden dawn. What <;an I give bus gift sjyselt antw? And to your feel the living tribute triug. Not for my worth I offer me to you, But for the love that piompts the offering. It is too late frr riches, land and gold; Toe late i*» pluck fir you the rose of power; My ha ais have bled V> gather what they holdBuds of dead hope—ambitiunV phantom fl.iwer.
One birthday gift, my dear, y«u shall not miss, I give it, gaining m >re tliAn i bestow, And wishing many g?ad refcirus—a kiss, A ruby keepsake melting iu ioye's glow.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2294, 12 January 1900, Page 6
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264TO MY SWEETHEART. Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2294, 12 January 1900, Page 6
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