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Loftus MacInnes Loftus MacInnes O pale Star of Hope
 * Give back thy lost light

To us, that must grope
 * In the murk of the night!

ULL ways and weary, Bright words and cheery Fall flat on the ear.

Young worlds wax older, Warm hearts grow colder, Faint embers smoulder And fast disappear.

Youth grimly dying, Age feebly sighing, Echo replying 'Seek only a bier.'

Idols fall broken, Prayers go unspoken, All things betoken Life's winter here.

The rill that ran vagrant, Sinks still and stagnant, Flowers that bloomed fragrant Droop withered and sere.

Each rose-tinted gleaming Of olden time, dreaming Has fled with the seeming That bade it appear.

We wait no to-morrow: We seek not to borrow Hope from old sorrow, Nor dread from old fear.