THE LIGHT.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 411, 24 March 1904, Page 8

THE LIGHT.

sWlth nothing; but waves to seaward And the grim rocks toward the land, Skf roll of the black clouds over, g •mild the breakers on every band; f > Bfcj night comes down on the ocean we ciimb the winding stair Vjßi't' that our lights are piercing • wPi thlck'ning, fogey air. •>*x up at the mouth of the riwa Seyend the narrow beach ■the last of the home light* twinkle And sink away from our reach. ■Alone on a rock In the desert Of tumbling and tossing tidal / drihe nation's outer signal ' "/-' ! To wanderers far and wide. •« Alone, and we wonder dimly » If the foghorn reaches the akord Or pierces the outer stretches . That tumble and toss evermore. Seme flsherwiie wakes In the lAgbM Had peers from her smoky window To see If we're shining bright; 5 i Or out on the tossing billows 1 •A helmsman watches our light "*»w p thousand souls In his keepingAs they rush through the pathless BlffM, lUone on a rock In the desert And hungry for those on shore, JThe swreams of the gulls and breakers Areuad us forevermora, ISO. otii Swift, *- * —'-trn «tm*ii --»~- l~ ML . mwwnm-