NIGHT,
With dusky limbs and raven wings, And a mantle of sable hue, And locks as ebon as black despair. Night flashed upon my view. Her bosom o'er with mystic loro Was writ in characters, of old, One hand a shield of^argent bore, And one a leaden sceptre held. Her stern brows round with stara she bound, Beamed darkly her imperial eye 'Nealh helmet plume of Stygian gloom As proud she swept across the sky. Her frozen lips weird horror chained, With silence were her sandals shod, It 3 banner—death—-behind-her trained, Oblivion marked tho path she trod. With fear and awe I, trembling, saw, While to my listening heart was said — From birth to death is but a breath Compared with lapse of ages fled. Eons of ages fail to tell The count since Night first trod the sky, Tinio yet shall peel Creation's knell, But Night shall never, never die. —HENBY T FLETCHER. Kati Kati, ilurch 1693.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2355, 13 April 1899, Page 49
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158NIGHT, Otago Witness, Issue 2355, 13 April 1899, Page 49
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