THE CHESS-BOARD.
My little love, do you remember, Ere we were grown so sadly wise, Those evenings in the bleak December, Curtained warm from the snowy weather When you and I played chess together, Checkmated by each other's eyes? Ah, still I see your soft, white hand Hovering warm o'er Queen and Knnjht, Brave pawns in valiant battle, stand, The double castles guard the wings; The Bishop bent on distant things, Moves, sidling through the fight. Our fingers touch, our glances meet And faulter ; falls your golden hail' ' Against my cheek ; down the field , ; ■ Your Queen , j Rides slow, her soldiery all between And checks me unaware. Ah, me ! the little battle's done, Disperat is all its chivalry ; Full many a move, since thenj have we 'Mid life's perplexing checkers made, And many a game with fortune p ayed, What is it we have now ? This, this at least— if this alone } That never, never, never nlore, As in'those old still nights of yore (Ei'e we were grown so sadly wise), Can you and I shut out the skies, Shut ottt the world, and wintry weather, And, eyes exchanging warmth with eyes, Play chess, as then we played together 1 —Owen Meredith.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1581, 4 March 1882, Page 24
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202THE CHESS-BOARD. Otago Witness, Issue 1581, 4 March 1882, Page 24
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