THE LIGHT.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 426, 23 June 1904, Page 8

THE LIGHT.

* \ With r.oth!r.;r but waves to seaward And il;? „. in rocks toward the land, roii o. ll.» .jiack clouds over, , . Ar.si •'•■ !-r.--:kers on every hand; ' •. rht r.ij-hi • om-.s down on the ocean '-; Ar.d wt (!:mb the winding stair Dutee that our lights are piercing 1M thick'r.ing, foggy air. ,^^' Far up at the mouth of the river Beyond the narrow beach The last of the hom« lights twinkle And sink away from our reach. Alone on a rock in the desert . Of turr. ! >!it:.;; and tossing tide; --i£--^:r The nation's outer signal ■■'%/ ' To wanderers far.and wide. *%**? I Alone, and we wonder dimly If the loghorr. reaches the shore ' <Ar pierces the outer stretches That tumble and tost evermore. Ferehar.ce in the little village Seme flsherwlfe wakes in the night And peers from her smoky window To eee if we're shining bright; -jpn Or out on the tossing billows *^*r A helmsman watches our light, •*. A thousand souls in his keeping As they rush through the pathless night. Alone on a rock in the desert And hur.gr>' for those on shore. The screams of the gulls and breakers Around us forevermore. —J. Otis Swift, In Lewlston BvenJng Jour* nal.