PRIMROSEN
Their sweet, pale faces heavenward are raised To greet divinely now the soft, blue day While reverent sunbeams round them gather softly, And slowly kiss the dewy tears away From their sweet eyes, soft-trembling fragrant lips— .... So pure, exquisite, so divinely fair. Ah then, when love, sweet loveliness is theirs, "Why should bright tears thro' night have gather'd there? Ah! the night winds in passing may have breathed To them some echo of my heart's de3p pain, Caught from such sighs of loneliness and grief That speak the deep misery of love that's vain. And those soft tears speak flower-synipath ', Silent, soul-deep ; and v.'hisper tenderly, "Seek not to crush Love's longing freni t y soul, All the sweet joy tliou longest yet shall be. ' To such sweet blossoms softly I will breathe Of all the passionate longing in this breast: Better to breathe it to sweet flowers that love. Than loveless hearts where pity ne'er couJ re3t. ' — Ada Olive Elusion. Christchurch, September, 1903.
— There is this difference between a wisi man and a fool — the wise man learns something from everyone he meets, white the fool tries to teach something to one he meets.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2690, 4 October 1905, Page 85
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195PRIMROSEN Otago Witness, Issue 2690, 4 October 1905, Page 85
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