A Fading Lily.
By Clelia R. Ckespi.
The days are long, and thejdays are dark, And a cruel wind blows keen and chilly. A shadow deepens each day, I mark. The tender leaves of my fair white lily. 0 sun, send down on this gloomy street, For one brief moment your shining splendour, Rain on the face of my lily sweet, Bright, warm kisses caressingly tender. Eaise, my blossom, your beautiful face Up to the skies a prayer for pity — No light falls in this desolate place, Our lives are dark in this mighty city ! Struggle to live, 0 my fair, white flower, There's light ahead for us both to-morrow, 'Twill soon be here — that glorified hour — . We'll know our joy as we've known our sorrow. But the'days are long, the days are dark, And oftentimes in the evenings lonely 1 feel, as the gathering shades I mark, One morn one only will wake— one only ! God pity me then ! God give me peace ! If waking once in the morning chilly, And bending over our sweet, white face, * My lips press only— a faded lily !
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1218, 30 January 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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185A Fading Lily. Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1218, 30 January 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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