The Four-Leaved Clover.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2023, 28 January 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Four-Leaved Clover.

BV r-.ZABETH V. HYATT. 1862. Deep m the grass a maiden knelt, Turning (he green blades over, With fluttering heart and anxious eye, ITunling a four-leaved clover. No treasure rare of jewel or gem Seemed half so fair to her vision As that slender wand of palest green, Prophetic of lands clysian. tV 4th a joyful cry she held the prize, ' Ohl darling four-leaved clover, Wilt bring my lover back to mo, When • this cruel war is over ?' •‘Wilt them give him a sword, and shoulder straps, And honor, and fame oh, clover ; * -ivc riches, and health, and bring him back When ‘ (hi- cruel war is over? ’" 1886. A faded woman, with streak- ul gray Her scanty brown locks threading, In sorrow and loneliness took the way Which many feet were treading ; To honor (be brave and noble dead With chaplet and wreath and emblem, With ruses, and daisies, aud violets fair. And lily-bells nodding and trembling, lu a narrow grave, a flag at bis head, ’Neath a simple stone she found him, No honors, no fame no riches were there. No tokens of rank around him No. none of the gifts she had a-ked that morn Of the treacherous fuur-leavcd clover Had come to the man that lay at her feet, Her youthful and beautiful lover. • »»»»*« No cross, no crown, no wreath of bay, Did she place on the grave of her lover. Hut tied with a ribbon of blue and gray A buneh of four-leaved clover.

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