THE LISTENING OAK.
Br " Viaoß." She found the eld familiar spot, Beneath the old oak treo, She sighed, she aighed, " He loves me not And I'm alone I ah mo ! " It watchad her there, the fond old oak, For trees have eyes, like other folk ; It whispered, whispered, "Hearts may roam, But late or early Love comes home I" He stood where they so oft had met, He flung away her flower, "Ah me I he cried, " Coquette I coquette! To lovo mo but an hour ! " But loudly sang the angry oak, For trees have hearts, like other folk ; And chiding, chidinir wag the song, " The heart that loves believes no wrong ! " There's some one stealing thro' the chace, And some one's arms thrown wide, And some one's horn is some one's place At happy evemide, The teara, the doubts, are gone, are gone, And gaily now thu oak looks on, And sin?» to them of jny and rest, The lovethats tried it happiest t " —Whitehall Review.
THE LISTENING OAK.
Otago Witness, Issue 1476, 28 February 1880, Page 26
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