ONLY-HAIR. TO ONE WHO GAVE IT.
(The Academy.) . •"Only a woman's hair." There was no name Upon the Blender packet ; and they blnme Tho man who would not bare for all to view The soul of her who trusted him. He knew To whom belonged that curl of softest hair, And thus he wrote, determined to leave there No trace which to the world might ever show Who was the woman that had loved him so. But all who love have relics : on my heart There rests aJocket, and I never, part By day or night with one small tress of hair. Yet must I tell the world who placed it-there Within the locket; call on all to see My greatest treasure— say 'twas given to me By one I love, who loves me not again,'. And show to curious eyes my love is yam ? And must I own to all that when I wake I ilnd my hand close clasps it for the sake Of one from whom I took that tress of hair Which. now is mine? say that I breathe a -prayer, That God will -bless and keep you aHyonr life, In sun and shade, in joy and peace and strife ? . I hold the world has nothing here to do, It shall not come between my soul and you ; Like the great Dean, I keep your name apart. Ton only know what rests upon my heart. '. .
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4715, 5 August 1893, Page 3
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