The Forgotten Country.
My fii?nd, I may not ?ee your face, Nor watch each well-remembered grace ; But you will al way a. hold a pines Within my memory, though we stand So far apart. The sea and land Divide us; and we clasp not hand. Yet, dear, I know, though some forget The past, you will remember vet The couutry where we two first met. Deep in your henrt'it will remaiD, With all its mingled joy and pain ; The past is past, and not in vain. We would not have it back once more, From that far-distant, silent shore Where there is rest for evermore. Nay, rather let us turn our eyes '' ' . To where the future bidden lies From us. Beneath the clear blue sk es The world may have f.or you in elore A gift we dream not of; ay, more, Beloved, than it gave of yore. But, dear one, you will ne’er forget The cooniry where « e two first met— The country that you love so yet, —Chambers’ Journal.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 955, 20 June 1890, Page 4
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171The Forgotten Country. New Zealand Mail, Issue 955, 20 June 1890, Page 4
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