A CHANCE MEETING.
Two shipsaipou life's boundless sea, We meet.: we "liold the self-same way A few short days, then compasses Compel our parting: we obey. Yet for some time we miss the ship Tliafc by us used to heave and bound Upon fche waves, nor o'er them catch From off that deck the welcome sound Of captain speaking to his men, Of voices answering to our cheer j Nor creak of rope, nor flap of sail, Speak sympathy unto our ear. Away the friendly vessel cleaves, And we hold on our usual course; A little sad our heart-strings feel, Our pidses lack their wonted force. Though never more, perchance, we meet That stranger ship upon the main, Is there no port which—peril past Of wind aud wave—we hope to gain, Where, lying safe from angry storm, We find at last that ship once more, And greet, her inmates hparfc to heart, As if old friends upon the shore ? Surely, 0 friend, ifc may be so ; Though thou and I have parted hands, We meet, again with firmer clasp, Life's ocean crossed, on Heaven's sands.
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Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1182, 22 January 1869, Page 4
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185A CHANCE MEETING. Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1182, 22 January 1869, Page 4
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