BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 80, 28 December 1907, Page 13

BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

VERSES NEW AND OLD.. SONG. Hope, the .great'explorer, , Love whom none can bind,. , Youth that looks before her, Ago that'looks behind, Joy .with brow like Summer's; . - Caro with''wintry'pato, ■; . Masquors are and mummers .' At Life's gate. - Yow'r.with narrow forehead, ."Woalth with niggard palm. iVisdoni old, whoso hoar hoad • ■Vaunts a barron calm; Haughty overcomers, ' . . : 1 In their pomp and state; — Uasquers all and mummers 'At Death's gate I •• —William .Watson. - ,» WANDERLUST. . s am longing for the seaward and the sun- • rise,' • / , And -tho wanderlust is deep arid strong in' ','moy > '■ ' I am; longing for tho hills', when the sunset . f soothes and stills ,;: • And the great'wbite "heart of summer pulses free. _ -' iWhat'the spirit is that stirs, I know not, " • It has sung and it has lured for years • > untold; . r , iWest or East wo little'care, we miist follow, - .we must daro. . When'tho old chart of the-vagrants is unrolled. .-,'■■■■ ■ ISvory dawn breaks like the pealing of a ' ''trumpet, ' . ' Evory night tho sunset loiters on. the rim, Something "calls each vagabond to the land of the Beyond, ' For/the great unknown is waiting there ; . ft>r him. ■ • ■ !' ■ What,tho'spirit'is that stirs,l know not, . , It has,sung and it has 1 lured for yearsiun- .'■■■. told; Go we East or go we West, caroloss are we ■ of . the quest, ' ■ When the old chart'of tho vagrants is un- • rolled. ' , , —James Owen Tryon. • •: GIPSY-MOTHER-SONG. ' . Gold aglow on the gorso, '. ■\-.Aajl, kingly parplo over the heather; • •, ; And lilips. on the river's course , . Lifjtiri'g their silver cups.together. Lullaby and'hushaby!'. . . . .. ' The.wayfaring day is o'er; Thou and I, together wo lie ; In the House of the Opon Door: But theo and for nio; my child, . ' Wandering folk and p00r,,,. \ . • liifere is treasure nntold on meadow and ■■■ \ ' . moor, "' . : ',When,;tho^vtnd^.blows.' s iril(L .; / . Gold;aflame'.on tlie corn, . .. ;. And 'queenly crimson deep in tho heather ; diamonds of; the. dew at morn . ; ■ i'lashing. their rainbow, drops together. Lullaby, and hushaby!- . . ■ . , / v.The'waj-faring.day is. o'er; , : v, Thou; and I, .together; wo liei ' i■■ ' •; , . ,r In'the House of the; Open Door: ;. ißnt ..for, thee and for me, my. cliildj ■Wandering, folk-, and poor,. . i . Therejare jewels-of price.: on..meadow and !■: moor, ■ ■ iWhen tho wmd .blows wild. , t'' ' • ' - Gold alight in the sky,; / And royal red m the heart of the 'heather ; 'And all tho night tho stars go by, ■ ■ Waving- their silver swords together. • Lullaby,and hushaby! Tho wayfaring day is,o'er; , 1 i Thou and I,; together wo lie - i .'ln. tho,House of tho Open , .But; for theo and for mo, my child, folk and poor,. | , , Thero. are dreams. of delight on meadow /vru 1 ' 5 ' jaoihoot'orism"- . i.ivnen, the lywdi b.lowairtyjldj; «t[,t p. i,? .. ■' ;' < , , i ''Byron.