A MESSAGE.
YOU-Gent a message to me, once, to go . ; To our old meeting-place, and wait for you; I waited, till the dreamy shadows threw; Their sadness over me; till, soft ana low. ■ ;■ , • The thrush piped his good night, so sweet, so true. ' • ,
You sent a message, once, and bada me feel The charm of life, my sweet! Until , the
Died suddenly, and brought eternal night; You did not seem to think it wrong to steal All from my- life that made it sweet or real.'
You sent a message, years ago— yet r .; : The. sweet,, false words come ...back. ana sting to-day: • -' - - s'?Jßߧslffii I hear you whisper, faint, and far away— % I dream that there is nothing i to. regret;-,EB But, as I dream,- my foolish eyes are.wet.;" V
Yon sent a message! > Pull of loss and pain, The memory, to-night, comes back in tears; I seem to see you through ; the; misty years, And meeting you smiling, free from harm or stainOnly to wake, and find you gone" again! MABEL GREENWOOD. ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11857, 8 January 1902, Page 3
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173A MESSAGE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11857, 8 January 1902, Page 3
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