THE HISTORY OF LIFE
1 saw an infant in its mother's arms, And left it sleeping ; Yearn passed—l saw a girl with woman's charms, In sorrow weeping.
Years passed—l saw a mother with a child, And o’er it languish ; Years brought me back; yet through her tears she smilet In deeper anguish.
1 left her—years had vanished ; I returned, And stood before her ; A lamp beside the childless widow burned— Grief’s mantle o’er her !
In tears I found her whom I left in tears, On God relying; Ami 1 returned again in after years, And found her dying.
An infant first, and then a maiden fair— A wife—a mother— And then a childless widow in despair—• Thus met a brother !
And thus we met on earth, and thus wc part To meet —oh ! never, Till death beholds the spirit leave the heart, To live for ever.
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New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 25, 25 October 1842, Page 4
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146THE HISTORY OF LIFE New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 25, 25 October 1842, Page 4
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