JUVENTUS REDIVIVA.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1210, 3 December 1919, Page 2

JUVENTUS REDIVIVA.

YOUTH ETERNAL. 'A man is as old as he focls himself; and a woman as young- as she looks.! Ilka lad an' his qiieau Are daffui'' at c 'cii; '• ■ ' . Nao carin' what foMi hear aa'. say; For the flovc-iieht is lowe-iu'," ' Their ho'rts.'a'ro a' glowin' , Like uujd folks ia their you.th.fU"' day. When lads woo their lassies ' They kcuaa tiii'io passes, Vet think it a wao-fu' clelay Till. in their ain house They'll be canty an' croose. An' a' thing else radiant an' gay; The. auld folks are sittin'— The auld wife aye Icuittia/'— Baith reindiii' o' past happy days; . • Nao doottho warl' wide " " ■'■-•>■ Has itiuidc a '.big stride, But they careaa for new-fangled vavs. An' they canna.just feel ■ That; things arc as wool As'some wad make oot in ihoir brag: Au ■acroplaue ploy May .som G "wi' .gov"; '.' x*' 'Twas safer with'.Jcss, their aull jfag: : But auld Nature jines \ A' folk, tao their kinds/ >■■ ■■)>,■■ ', ..list see.-the.' grai'v'-baim's roon' their knee! .

For the child-like in ho'it ]S r ne years set apairt, An' the auld an' the, young meet an' •'greo. 0! it's nao jist the look Tolls the page o' the book. lu the tale'o.' ILifc/s dawnin' aut' nitht, .For the. youthfu' in soul

• Frae; the_ stairt t'ae v the goal 3hoVvthe gleam p' Eternity's IJj'ut —T. WW, in the 'Scotsman.?