POETRY OF THE WEEK.
||:v THE DAY LOVE GAME. ■ "%\-
• V' l!£ay kove came I did not know bis V-v ict, .C.Vinc'ly grswo i* was; so calm the -co yYi.yler level brows, I thought I '. ; ed ;.'^endship's countenance. „ day Love came I did not know his > .':'?.- * voice, Since it was but a voice familiar grown, That all my years, in any hour of need, \ Had answered to my own. /; The'day Love came I did not know his 4 touch, * V So cool and, light the clasp he offered ..;) me; It caused no leap of hot blood to my Heart, J No sudden ecstasy. The day Love came I did not know his Who only felt it softly on my hair, *or l A la 2 fought his burning li ps would find & c My lips, and set it there. The day Love came there was no miracle, No rapture and no flame of passion. TOO he lart l knGW Mm f°r the faithflU I miss . . so much . . to-day.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 June 1915, Page 6
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