QUEEN SORROW.
" The King i<> being tenderly and devotedly nursed by his noble wife, our beloved Queen, to whom the hearts of British people throughout the wide world go out in sympathy." — Daily Times leader, June 23, 1902. They pictured peace, a. tiny nest All hidden from the storm That rageci from plam to mountain crest One winter morn , Wherein the songster of the wood 3 Throughout that fearful day— Beyond the power of winter moods — Peacefully by.
The storm of grief is raging now, Beyond the King' 6 command. No song, and paleness clouds the brov. O'er all the land. The \olce of silent Sonow speeds From anxious .=c-a to °ea, To she that watches where it needs A Queen should be.
The fiercest winter storms may trace Their fury everywhere ; Yet queens and songsters find a place Of resting there. For while the woods have power to win Their Queen a place of rest, Lo 1 Sorrow hides our Queen within The Emmro's breast 1 — J. Maclennan,
Dunedin, June, 1002
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Otago Witness, Issue 2520, 2 July 1902, Page 71
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172QUEEN SORROW. Otago Witness, Issue 2520, 2 July 1902, Page 71
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