BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 21, 19 October 1907, Page 10

BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

VERSES NEW AND 6LD. / A SOU'-WEST ' STORM; \. ' .From the brooding gloorii of the wild Sou' west ... ■ The scattering black duck come,,-. Whilo the'willing mallards \ drop in' to resl In the whispering sedge where they had thoij nest, : And pur loosened, shingles, hum. ... There's a threat in the top-of the swaying trees. . ' Arid the.sea's skin seems to crawl, l The ship'a'nd'the,cattle nro ill. ntease, .:.'■ A blind swell travels'before l, the breeze- ; -i , i'; - And tosses my anchored yawl. Oh heavy the drops on the bam roof ring, Stars, spatter, on ev'ry. pane, .. .: ....... Across-the. clouds, goes "a found'fing wing,. ■'. Blown but of the skyV The salt sprays'stingj And the light begins to wane. . / On the sodden pasturis the splashes spread Wide stretches of cheerless gray; In the hollow .tree the coon is abed, The murdering mink to his cave has fled, And the fish have fled the bay. Then the wind that's wet with the whole World's tears, i_ That mourns for'millioris'dead,- .''.-"■''.'.v'.'A Grown mad with the woe of a thousand years' . Burdened with prayers that no kind God hears, . ';■ [•■■■ ~ Shrieks like a soul in its dread. sill life cowers dumb while.the dead trees cry, ThVlong.'dead.-.kings'who.have,_stpod ,'. Through countless years with their heads in the sky, / '• ' ' They totter and fall and tho wind sweeps by, And Hell is loose in the wood. 'But the'trees may :crash; and the house walls . throb,* tM/.■■■■•' :■',■■, ';'.:; ':.• :. And tho loosened shingles hum, , The breakers may rave and the, .West winds : '■"...■■ sob, for Faith has a cache that no winds may rob, She knows that Spring will. come.. •■''■':ji' T ;. —Clivo Phillipps-Wolley, in the d .,-.' i "'.' "Spectator.".