A CLASP OF HANDS.
".i- ' I. Soft, small, and swoet'as sunniest flowers Thai bask' in heavenly heat , When, bud by bud breaks, breathes and cowers, Soft, small, and sweet; 'A babe's hands opeji-as to greet.' Tlio tender tbuclt'of'olirs 'And mock with motion faint, and'fleet Tho minutes. of tho - how strange hours • That earth, not'heaven, : must meto'; • Buds fragrant still from heaven's own. bowers, Soft, small,- and sweet. . , , N .. ■ ii' . > : ' ' V ■'A velvet vice,'."with springs 'of steel ■ . That fasten in a trico And clcnch tho fingers fast - that feel - ~ A velvet vice— What mari- ? .woiild-risk the danger twice, '* . N.or qnakc from head to heel? S Whom would' not one -such .test suffice? •< Well may wo tremblo as we kneel In sight of Paradise,. If both , a babe's closed fists conceal ' A velvet vico. ' , ' . . : ' HI. ' '.; Two llower-soft fists of conquering clutch, . Two ..creased and dimpled wrists That .match, if mottled'over-much,' ; - Two ; flower-soft fists—.- i Wliafc heart of ;'man dare hold, the lists' Against such odds- ami such Sweet .vantage as ,no strength resists? , Our "strength is all :a broken crutch, Our eves are dim"with, mists; ■ : -• Oiu-.r hearts are-prisoners , as , we touch Two ilower-soft , fists. ' , . ~ Swinburne.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 95, 15 January 1908, Page 3
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193A CLASP OF HANDS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 95, 15 January 1908, Page 3
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