Homesickness.
knew a slron;? man, And he dwelt ’mid the hilts whore the swift streams ran, t , . . . " For h ; Invert. to live whore his life began. Bu.- thoy took him away anti made him nl*irto Where the great streets darken and and chirio . . -U-.-' ' With their ceaseless tide; And he mourned for the hills which mourned for The man, Soho sickened and died. I knew a weak bird, And son dwelt in the woods where her song was first' hoard. For she loved the bowers by her young wing stirred. Bat they caught her away an l made abido In a cage where she s ing not, but often cried For her lost forest .wide : And she moaaod for the woods which moaned for the bird, So she languished and died. O Band f the Soul ! ■ / Men have lived on thy lulls within Dove’s control, And fsin had they strayed whore the siarstreams roll. But a hand plucked them thoniJe, and made them abide In a world where they wandered and often cried For that first hillside—- ‘ take us back to tliy Land of the Soul.’ o they sorrowed and died. H. Bernard Carpenter, in the. .New England Magazine.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 940, 7 March 1890, Page 4
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199Homesickness. New Zealand Mail, Issue 940, 7 March 1890, Page 4
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