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The dreaming silvery gleam athwart the sea, Lingering the long night tkiough m sleeping
light ; The silent love-pale moon, yearning to draw And clasp the wandering waters , lonely star That looks to lonely star across the dark. Is this like love? for my full heart must love
3?rail sea-shell echo-ing olden memories; The soft caress of the slow-falling tide Along the line of moonlit stones ; low moan Where sea and streamlet mingle , mirrored
fern Bowing to kiss the ripples seaward borne. Is this like love? for my full heart must love. Soft-sighing wind that cometh with the stars From the ■warm south, and toucheth with it 3
breath. The lips of dreaming flowers; sweet dew-drop That nestles sleeping in its petalled bed ; Pale night-closed bud clasped by the fresh
green loaf. Is 'this like love? for my full heart must love. — S. M.
Timaru. March, 1901.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 10 April 1901, Page 69
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192SONG. Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 10 April 1901, Page 69
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