THE LOST SHIP.
Mother of Sorrows! The tide runs low—lis it too much that I ask for peace? Grey is the tide at the ebb .and the flow, Grey is the sea where the tide-ripe oease. Mother of Sorrows! I saw her fly Swift as « goU-'fhlD' th<> red sunrise— Mother of Sorrows! who saw them die? — Blue is the sea. where the torn hull lies. Mother of Sorrows) si dawn of day, Her tops'ls flushed by th' fkuning sky— Mother of Sorrows! for poaoa I; prayThere is no peace, and I may not die. On she rushed in her sun-kissed life TouoWl bv its Kjrht to «, living thing! Nitrht! she fought mid the fiercest strife; Day! soft winds in the palm-trees eing. Mother of Sorr-ows! the tide flows fast. Grey is the flood, and T ask for peaoef Mother of Sowow ! the ebb at l«*t! I go;—beyond where the tide-rips oease. —Olive Tilly. Remuera, Auckland, N.Z.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2915, 26 January 1910, Page 71
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156THE LOST SHIP. Otago Witness, Issue 2915, 26 January 1910, Page 71
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