A DREAM OF LONG AGO.
In the silence of 'the night, When I slept my heart awoke, And a face long lost from sight * Like a star the darkness broke — Then I felt her love enfold me In the bliss I used to know, When her eyes and lips consoled me • With the smiles of long ago. As her gaze grew more intense, All the past was mine once more, Calling back to soul and sense Love's so loug forgotten lore — Vanished memories came thronging Warm and sweet as youth's first glow, Till, my Me dissolved in longing For the kiss of long ago, But I sighed and strove in vain, For her face grew far away, And I wakened in my pain To the cold unhappy day — Then I rose' like one still dreaming, Weary with a weight of woe : Through my heavy eyelids streamiug Fiowcd the tears of long ago. —Temple Bar.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1320, 17 March 1877, Page 19
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154A DREAM OF LONG AGO. Otago Witness, Issue 1320, 17 March 1877, Page 19
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