THE BELLE'S LAMENT.
They call me fair and divine, They deck me in garments gay, The worship of all is mine, If I choose to stoop for it; nay, The only one in whose eyes I would shine Is far, far away. " I love you," they cry aldud, Till they weary me>night and day, " Why are you so coldly proud ? "* Why still do you say me nay?" But my heart from this chattering crowd Is far, far away.
They say to me, " Throned, you sit In our hearts ; at your feet we pray, . We love your beauty and wit, Be only our dearest!" Nay, Ever and always my thoughts still flit Par, far away.
Among all they tell me is none, But his heart I can mould like clay, And his feet at my 'hest should run From dawn to twilight grey. But the one I care for, the only one, Is' far, far away.
My friends they know me well. They'll remember me alway, So they love in my car to tell, But what care I? Night or day My heart, like a passing bell, 4 , Tolls for one fai away, And I know not even, who love him well, If he thinks of me yea or nay; I only long with the dead to dwell, Far, far away.
—OLIVE JANE HART.
Te Aotea, June 20.
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Otago Witness, Volume 02, Issue 2420, 2 August 1900, Page 56
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249THE BELLE'S LAMENT. Otago Witness, Volume 02, Issue 2420, 2 August 1900, Page 56
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