LIGHT AND SHADE.-A DEDICATION.
The sea gives her shells to the nhingle, Tho earth gives her streams to the sea ; They are roaay, but my gift is single, My ver op, the first fruit 3of me. Let the wind take the gronn and the gray leaf, Cast forth without fruit upon air ; Tftlce rose loaf aud vine-leaf and bay-leaf Blown loose from the hair. The night shakes them round mo in legions, Dawn drives them before her like dreams ; Time shedu ihom like snows on strange legions, Swept sborew«rd on iaflnife streams ; Lesvas pallid and sombre and ruddy, Dead fruits of the fugitive years ; Bon 9 staintd as with wine and made bloody, And some e,i with tears, —Algernon Charlca SfflfitmniCi i
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Otago Witness, Issue 1488, 22 May 1880, Page 24
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