THE TRINITY.
When I was small they told to me A tiling 1 could not understand, That God was one anil yot was three riii-oe splendours in one splendour furled— They showed the clover-stalk to jue 1 hat was a leaf and yet was three And still my slowness could not understand. I. nt then, but then, in this some ferny land shield WIIS " ly stiUl(lilrd a '" d m i' Another followed ere my eves had dried AlUl 'on"' d!ed frUSh to " e fl,n '°'' They passed me swiftly one by one, Into new a iand» Ward ' OOU "" '"" Or Oeld, Beyond my clutching hands, I'lftlng the mournful sliprails of the world Ami ray three woos beneath the sun licraine as one.
Tliree sorrows in one sorrow furled And nn tor me who could not understand Of thinus trfiino, Rearing from morrow tinto morrow, stepping from sorrow unto sorrow, I'oo clearly now the voice has spoken, Too bitterly the licht hna broken. Too simple now it seri,, s to me. ' The myslery of Trinity. — ISIUSEN DUGGAN. Wellington.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 137, 11 June 1932, Page 1 (Supplement)
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175THE TRINITY. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 137, 11 June 1932, Page 1 (Supplement)
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