The poetical works of Robert Stephen Hawker Edited from the original manuscripts and annotated copies together with a prefatory notice and bibliography by Alfred Wallis |
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TO MATILDA VALENTINE,
ON HER BIRTHDAY, JULY 17TH, 1864.
Maid of the North! a distant sky
Kindled with light thy large dark eye;
And now within its glances rest
The soft beams of our glowing West.
Kindled with light thy large dark eye;
And now within its glances rest
The soft beams of our glowing West.
Welcome that sun! its joyous ray
Smiles on Matilda's native day;
And, lo! to soothe her path are given
The happiest hues of earth and heaven.
Smiles on Matilda's native day;
And, lo! to soothe her path are given
The happiest hues of earth and heaven.
Hail! omen of that dawning time
When Maud shall hear her marriage-chime,
And light and music, blended, greet
The pausing matron's homeward feet.
When Maud shall hear her marriage-chime,
And light and music, blended, greet
The pausing matron's homeward feet.
Such and so cloudless be the days
Whereon thy noon of life shall gaze;
So may a cloudless sunset shine,
Maid of the North, for thee and thine.
Whereon thy noon of life shall gaze;
So may a cloudless sunset shine,
Maid of the North, for thee and thine.
1864.
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