THE DELUGE.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 183, 18 December 1886, Page 6

THE DELUGE.

SV.om "Idylls ok Thk King's Realm." (ByW.R. Write) The midnushT winds, v,>i*i mutter'd woe Caiuf Li^-jul: t).roug>- ach cra^ and fell, The liKhimi us fla-hM. tne thunders rolled, Like flunn/ q nn> -.eterf of hell ; Acd N.»t r shook th.- >n]i i earth jfc.3 in hsr first convu aive ai-th. "The sea uprose — anrt rains be^t down, Till a'leys ->ere but o"pr-r pt wes. And To4nn riiiows la^'tl ;ht> hills— And o'er th»- niouu*a:ns sv ept the waveß, fierce Met or« f 'il with hurried f/Ue, And darkness made more d«">c>7ate ! Then ro-e the wailinß cry of babes, Anr inothnre' hei- ts -.\ e^e vi runj? -with dread Ana in thf i-acooiei of death lhey U.isso'l tht^ pale lips of the'r dead ! _A.h! love, vor heart- ; anf, d^ing, kiss The pale, dead idol* of your b L>s ! she le v-r cla i -i>ed hi 1 * f^ir young bride In fie stony; arms— the i rot'ul sea Buy iVv-heo its unrelenting tide — (Ah ! bride and lover «ank in tbee.) one convnil^iv" ftp.en for b eath, A bitter wail— a husn of death ! The cyclone rave I—tho1 — tho tpm oest mourned A sad sad req'iiem f »r \h" nea-i, Nor stTrs. no m o> , th ew forch T hoir litjht, For life, t-nd I'^ht. and h^p ■ had fled ! And. but fhe w,ul ■ f sturm r> " *>iin Told Xaixire sobb'd. and «c bL'd in pain ! And d<ivs fl •// Da^c : t^io vh.v. s were still. Th? wi d< wo •- )t->e th • '.-phyr's brtath. And from th* 1 -■i < k a rayon went Far .jVr Oi"" roh.'ni's of -o& end death ! It came r.ot b«ok '-nd fj nh r-nrl love tcr^t Ior L h fhc cvt r faitMul cove. O! gentle b '\ — thou f«u v.-ood-dove, 'i hou sh'.'t be i" l-t oat.va t.v v sh};o tond Be th^u o mc^PiK'tT f< f h vf- ; do forJh ar d hrn an liijk — a bond B^t"ftefTi tho ro- am' >i i-ety. JBetwpen >^o p^ t ard ' Ye'toba" And she r"turris ; 0! bi stod ark, 'I hou icfu^e s>ife fro> • wi^d nnd ?*»«. Ay I s"ie r uir'S licit* vand'nnpr FT-<Ji<e, VVIi. "vvtaii ri wins. Tor rest m t nee— stk can we btir fi. d l<. rptt, P.ut ia t'i> lv>^ c— uh ! I,\ ng breuar ? Ah ! •jhi Yt ugh; i.opr —an o jvp branch Sli- f"tid j born aetoss the w jvc, ISoiDlt'm «tf u^tc- anu o\ « i ivino ; A ray of i F»* f o *"■ oe« en g* ay© — A waif tne t 3Si q nad Cußt— A relic Qi the buried pw t Th » f^c-vi. went forth <»X <in— and hOV36 Retur&t o an . th<* t>hd v-atcrs fell — And rorunt •inn clad in livi q vireen, A lie >.f iov» aij^i peace may tell, Sweet Nature -t iled, and threw her sheen O'er bnrsti.>R buds acd lany ec°re. Th*> wo 1 wan fair, the aUif s again Were nriuht, Hnd eh uds t/f 8 lver hue ifiTlinet th> fl.j tinjc, weirr'-hke hills. That sail d th« nevpi-eijiliDgbluo, The ban again threw hen.* a.-d light, And ikta'ts onet- 3-ad avjnin were bright.