"GONE."

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 16, 5 February 1892, Page 15

" G O N E . "

— "♦ Gone ! and there's not a gleam of you, Faces that float into far away ; Gone ! we can only dream of you, Each as you fade like a star away ; Fade as a star in the sky from us, Vainly we look for your light again ; Hear ye the sound of a sigh from us ? " Come I" and our hearts will be bright again. Come ! and gaze on our face once more, Bring us the smiles of the olden days ; Come ! and shine in your place once more, And change the dark into golden days, Gone I gone ! gone ! joy is lied from us, Gone into the night of the nevermore, And darkness rests where you shed for us A light we will miss for evermore. Faces I ye come in the night to us ; Shadows ! ye float in the sky of sleep ; Shadows I ye bring nothing bright to us 1 Faces ! ye are but the sigh of sleep. Gone ! and there is not a gleam of you, Faces that float in the far away ; Gone I and we can only dream of you Till we Bick like you and the stars away. Father Ryan.