CHIMES.
Midnight it is. The slow chimes singly fall Like words from the insensate lips of Time. <'Lear ns the repetitions of u rhyme They echo over toiver and roof and wall. Silent as falling star a day is born. Silently pass the coaches of the night Freighted with hours. Unseen, upon the height The" season's hand is shaping leaf and thorn. Now God be thanked who gave these chimes to keep Tally for man of Time's unpaid accounts; Unhindered equally by joy and sleep, The slow, emphatic warning upward mounts That like a' silent showman just off-stage Time waits to usher on his actor Age. —CUKISTINE COMBER, Sydney. »
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 129, 2 June 1934, Page 1 (Supplement)
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109CHIMES. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 129, 2 June 1934, Page 1 (Supplement)
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