OUE OWN.
If I had known in the morning flow wearily all the clay The words unkind would trouble my mind Thar I said when you wunt away, I hart been more cartful, darling-. Nor given you neediest, pain : But wu vox our own with look aud tone We might Dover take back again. For though in the quiet evening "You may give me tho kiss of peace, Yet it mia'ht be that never for me The piim oi the heart should cease ! How many go forth at morning Who never come home at night ! And hearts have broken for harsh words spoken That sorrow cau ue'er set right. We have direful thought for the stranger, And smiles for Ilie sometime guest ; But oft ior our own the bitter tone, 'I hough we love our own the bebt. Ah ! lips with the curve impatient, Ah ! brow with the shade of scorn, 'Twero a cruel fute were the night too late To undo thi! work of morn!
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Otago Witness, Issue 1162, 7 March 1874, Page 26
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166OUE OWN. Otago Witness, Issue 1162, 7 March 1874, Page 26
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