A LOST LOVE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2818, 18 March 1908, Page 87

A LOST LOVE.

The clod* Strikes 1, Jbjat I still sit and dream Of "the iappy dsftfsgor.e by. And -there before me a phantom host Of tlu£ friends for whom I aigh. 'Anfly^rigbt in the light of this misty dream Is a fac« I long to s*« — A face all lit up with Angelic light That smiles and beckons to me. : Then I mildly start -to etey "the fair form Ere it passes from my dream, But 2 £n.d, <mL»6, "that it is but one Of the things that only seem — But one of the visions that, night and day, Pursue me where'er I go, Thnt floats on before me -as years go by, And. mocks at my grief and woe. Then I cry aloud in my anguish deep: "'Gome back ix> me ; come and stay " ; But it amiles- and beckons me follow on, Then slowly passes away, MU it disappears in the hazy gloom, And is fax Treyond my call; Then my hopes which the vision raised so high To the ground in ruin fall. Kb more we will meet at the close of day, No more in the duslc we'll stroll Along the bright sands of ,tb.e ocean, beach, • Wiwre the mighty billows >roll. Ifo more will we whisper the words of love — Tie words we both longed to hear;— And jiow all -alone I must tread life's .path : For my JoveVs jio longer beie. Haw flpell I remember ihe day she died, An 3 iow still and quiet ihe Jay, And >how -she looked up in my face and smiled Jnst bafone she passed -away. I .held both ier liny Stands fast in mine *' •When. I saw iier spirit dfly, And the light went suddenly out of jny life "When I -saw my loved one die. _ , — A. H. Brekker. ■ February, 1908. [