A DREAM.
" God I)!ess my friend." were tne words I gaid A' on the pillows 1 laid m* head, And tric>d to forget in ulumbc-r d«cp The voicp th.-t oft drove avr^v my sleap : lii-* vcice that ulways throush calm £>nd c.rife Kept v.hispering, " Ycurs is a useless life." Whan aclc-o mv thougM to dreamlnnd flew. Ay.d who phoii'd I ir-e»i. mv friend, but you? You looked ?i mo sadly, then s»id Try." Then irto the f;'oo>n you pasf-sd me Lv. Straight to my hea'-f like a thrueting km'fe Came the woicls, "Yours is r useless life. AVitb -n "tart T v.-eke in angruisb d<*ep. And trird. Fid tried but in vain. U sleep; £or the >,crd= vpie st-amp«d upon my brain, You.- i&cs v.v = before tt-c full of pain. Ana a vow I took. ' Thro' cam und strife. Ko more v>;l! niine be a. useless life." —A. H. BKcffINEK.
— Angelina (who has nsver seen a revolv'n n 'i=ht befor-p) : '"How patient aK<] perse--.-ering fcbcsa sailors mitsf Ije, Rejwyie. Tha v.-md has blown the light out six times. since I hey lit it, and they've lighted it again each Mine." — "Well, thank goodness, you ye nawr ■*3n m© run after paopie who have money !" — -"Xo ; but I've seen people run sifter yon because you didr't have money."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2902, 27 October 1909, Page 86
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A DREAM.
Otago Witness, Issue 2902, 27 October 1909, Page 86
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