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/ “ THE LONELY HEißpJ’.'; {To m Editor 'SATUBbAY AriVEirtiSEß.)'/ Sir,— .The following pathetic:; lync ti was written by the Bev. Charles Wolfe, author of the lines on the burial of Sir J ohn Moore, and although published in .his works, is not generally known. For singing, it is adapted to the Irish air, ■“ Grammachree.”/ Wolfe said, he on one occasion surig the air over and over till he burst into a flood of tears,fin which he composed this lyric.—l am, etc., ;11 (~)>//{ 01 T James’Sanderson/" Dunedin, May 20; * , 7 , J ' If I had thought thou could’st have died,/ " ! I might not weep for thee ; But I forgot, when-by thy side, That ikhou could’st mortal be / It never through my. mind had , passed . The time would e’er be o'er, /'. , And I on'theo should look my last, And thou should’st smile np more. And still-upon that faceT look, ' : > ; And think /twill smile again ! . And still the thought I will not brooty ; ' That’l must look in vain !! rt * !i ■ •*«/ r But when I speak—thou dost not say 1 What thou ne’er left’st unsaid; l! 11 i: r And now I feel, as well I. may, i f Sweet Mary ! thou art dead! \ t . If thou wouldst stay .e*en'-as : " oa / i - All cold and f all serene] ! I still might press thy silent heart, And where L thy smileri h’avebeen! While e’eri thy chill bleak corse I have,' sM mirie own^' v 0 £ } 0 But there I lay thee in thy grave— And I afti notr alone ! Javuvnc weq?, heyil iadT I do not think, where er thon art, ! , ~- * .]/ /Thou hast forgotten me,; And I, perhaps, may soothe this heart. : ; ~ In thinking, too, of thee : - i«/ <; / ->r£i Yet there was round thee such a dawn . ] Of light ne’er seen before, As fancy npyer could have drawn, ( ;,! /. i Andrnever can restore ~, , / ; j
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Saturday Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 150, 25 May 1878, Page 3
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