THE AMORI'S LOVE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2985, 31 May 1911, Page 70

THE AMORI'S LOVE.

Silent, with sheeny ferns on either side, The grass-green glade slopes back from'the suil stream. Terrace o'er terrace rise the radiant trees. 1< ar back the flinty crags that keep the snow Are flecked wit a mists that cling to rock j and pine, And over all extends the azure sky. I . Creatures of Nature, hourly we conform To moods we may not master. Beat and rago Of tine elements has made us what we are, ! And tha.t which subtly binds us to the soul Of the vast Universe. But we are here

Where brown Waruha tojd his passionate* love , To wistful Rita, and she made reply— I " Child of the warrior chief, it may not be. Troth-plighted ere my maiden fancy woke Life-bound, alone I do my duty now

Denied the bliss of love. I scon may bear A son to Rhua, and b. 13 ©able eyes May win me to the father. As for thee— A thousand maidens wait for thee to choose, Voluptuous -arms, warm lips, and sheeny skin—i But Lola hath the spirit in her eyes That wina the truer wan. Return to her And bless her for my sake." Then he airose—"My Rita! I will dare to wait for thee— A student in this awful solitude Through cull the days and years that aire ordained. My love! My only love! Farewell! Farewell!" Karetu hath his secret, and the snows _ That tower sublime beyond, for never since Hath human eye beheld him—lake and stream And wilderness >are his for evermore. —Charles Oscar Palmer.