THEN AND NOW.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 46, 12 November 1892, Page 1111

THEN AND NOW.

BUT when at last I dared to speak, The lanes, you know, were white with may, Your ripe lips moved not, but your cheek Flushed like the coming of the day; And so it was—half-sly, half-shy, You would and would not, little one I Although I pleaded tenderly, And you and I were all alone. And now those vivid hours are gone Like mine own life to me thou art Where past and present wound in one Do make a garland for the heart. Look thro’ mine eyes with thine. True wife, Round my true heart thine arms entwine ; My other dearer life in life, Look thro’ my very soul with thine! Untouched with any shade of years, May those kind eyes for ever dwell! They have not shed a many tears Dear eyes, since first I knew them well. TENNYSON.