In Memoriam

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 56, 7 March 1942, Page 6

In Memoriam

(Amended Version) Days of such griel are these that none can stand Uncaring as he used and mark his days (II mark be did) as merely pleasant mood*: Howe'er self-centred, whatsoever his greed For joyousness, his fellows , tear-dJmmed eyes Must move his human kinship with their grief And one who had passed through the purging fire And still held loving kindness, raised a hand To stay a cry of sorrow: these his words:— "A widow 'Con amort e dolore' carved Upon her husband's tomb; 'Eheu!' was all A friend said to a friend; so many ways There are to emblem sorrow; memory Is so, so precious that loss turns to gain Companions life with gracefullest Immortelles Dispelling shadows from the faithful heart So what is woeful death but waking life To him who faces all and fears not, keeps a mind Still gaxinr to that never-changing light And says these words: "There glows my In ■ Memoriam!" How right the garden lover who inscribed His aun-dlal thus: "Hours fly, flowers die. New days, new ways pass by, love stays." —CRETAN.