" I LOVE YOU NOT."
You ask me why I love you not? You ask me why my heart is cold ? Have I the happy past forgot, And all the sacred vows of old ? l I loved you once, but ne'er again Shall my warm lip 3be pressed to thine ; We parted then in silent pain— The sorrow yours, the anguish mine. Why did we part? God only know 3 ; It seemed some strang? decree of Fate ; My heart in vain sought for repose ; It cried for thee— but cried too late. I love you not — my love is dead ; Why should my lips the truth conceal? 'Ti3 better that the truth were said, For time it3elf the wound may heal. I c%nnot therefore fcive my heatf, Nor a«k yon now to share my lot : Our paths in life lie wide apart ; Now go your way— l love you not. Dunedin, April 28. — R. M.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2253, 6 May 1897, Page 43
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