QUARREL AND NO RECONCILIATION.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 107, 20 June 1885, Page 7

QUARREL AND NO RECONCILIATION.

Calm Was the night in that still autumn weather And calmer still and colder were the twain Who, parting 1 then, might yet have kept together If prido had not been stronger even than pain. - There were no bitter tears, no sighs of sorrow* No sad reproaches uttered at tho end ; And should they meet* years henco or on the morrow^ 'Twill be with courteous easp, as friend meets friend. Oh! mocking words for those who once loved nnuUyj Henceforth to bj .mere friends, not less, not more ; Deep in each heart a doath knell sounding Madly, For love', deemed cL'tithlcs", in glad days of yore. Nut more than friends ; the voices must not falter, Lest broken ton-s betray a vain rogivt ; And on the lips the forced smile must not alter To bliow h( w. 'noath that mask, grief's lines are sot. Let them take heed, lest any word be spoken To roims hoiuo ghost from out the buried past ; Though the dear ties that bound them once are broken, A htvaiis?e -spell lingers >et and holds th •!» fast. Not less than friend-* ; but ah 1 the friendship offei ed Soeins of such litt e worth, now love is dauu ', Tia hard to take the hind thus coldly proffered And feel the tender> thrill ng touch has gone. Gone with the day, when just one word was reeded Those heavy clouds of pride and doubt to lift ; But all in vain loves dying voice has pleaded ; Now far apart each lonely life must drift. And she will never know at their next meeting, How ha'-d he fought an out.vard calm to gain ; Nor will he*, see, beneath the friendly greeting. How her true heart still yearns to him through pain. — Belgravia.