VERSES NEW AND OLD.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 134, 29 February 1908, Page 12

VERSES NEW AND OLD.

- ' " i ' THE DONKEY, v When fishes flew and forests -walked,' •! >. ■ . ' And figs grew upon thorn, . / Some 'moment when the, moon was blood, ;',<y ~;-The& surely I was born. ■ i-. v, ' -"With monstrous head 'and sickening ory, And ears like errant wings, . The devil's walking parody On all four-footcd tilings. The tattered outlaw of the earth, ............. .... ■•-vOf ancienti crooked will; r :• . : v .-; , .-Starve, scourge, deride I;ieep my secret still. .• Fools! For I also had; my hour— 1 Ono'far, fierce hour and sweet; There was a 6hout about my ears, • , ; And.palms before.my. feet. . .•• ■ 1 —G. K. Chesterton. ' 1 WAR. From hillvto "hill- he\harried..mos He stalked me 'day : and.night; . . ■ — He,.neither know.nor:hated; me; •" ■.■ a !■■ '■■ Nor* his por mine, tho fight. • « /He killetj the man who stood by me, ■ . . ■ v - For such thev madeTiis law; _ . Then foot by foot I fought to ttim,- > . rWho neither know nor saw.. , . , t . ' iv■■■•.'-xr I itrained my, rifle on- his -heart; ■ ■■..■ ' ; He -leapt .up in the air, ; . :_ ; ; . The scroaming ball tore through his breast, v And lay embedded there. , lay hot embedded thero, and yet ■ ■•■■■■)■/ ■ Hissed home o'er hill and. sea , • Straight to the aching heart of one - i : Who'd not mine nor me! - .. x • —Arthur Stringer .in "The Header.".: ' REMEMBRANCE. ' 1 ' D nnforgotten lips, gjey haunting ejea, | . Soft curving cneeks and • keart-rremembered brow, I It is all true, the old love never dies; . • , And, parted, we ;must meet for: ever now. . We did not think it true!; We did not.think 'Love meant this universal jcry ol.pain : / l' This .crown of thorn, tins vinegar to drink, ■" ■■ ■■■■■ ...This lonely orucifision agam. >■ '■:< v ! '; •;'; Yet through the darkness of the sleepless^ni^ht.r, Your.torturediface (Somes-meekly-answering mine; / •n .. Dumb.vbut -r.know. why -those mate hps art) i i white. Dark, but J know Tihy those dark lashes ■ :; ■: t : 0. love, love; 'love.i and -what ;if tluq should *#'. -■<.: Far ever now, through God's Eternity?. ■ 1 „ . ; . Noyes in the; "PalMla 11 Magazine.'' r SAGITTARIUS. ' - r • o"starry Sagittarius, bright Sign j- :■■■■ Whose high effulgenco rayed'upon my birth, . • ; oKemorseless thou hast brought me . neither mirth', ' ,'. • ''X,r*'!-"'- v';'" ■ -Nor solace of good cheery nor love ofiwine . . • Or wassail, nor. the. ease of wealth..! But mine • been the- briered portion of the 'earth— ; ■ :' ; !i: Travail. aityi strain, and ceaseless; care,- and •, dearth ' • Of 'mpidless sleep, kind Nature's anodyne;'. Great starry Archer, :what doth' mean for me : /i'-.;, -: -.iThy,,-tense-drawn 'bow, thy vquivering i shaft i of fire .Which, gleams in dark-blue fiolds. eternally ?. That I should bend my bow in pain, nor tire Of futile shafts? . Futile? / Oh; bo;» ; . That one pierca the'mark ero l espire! -Frederic -! Crowmnshield ' in - "TJndor the ; laurel."

, AGB.S Blindness, and women sailing on white' seas, j. Seas where no..placid sails have ever been; • , i.. -Dreams like wait demons ,on waste; marshes seen WJ ' ' ' > i. '' through dulling vfovered 'ejes.' The dregs and 1 leo^. Of wme long spilt to- dead'divinities.v '? ; 'r ; • : -.Gray, . empty. '.days'.v,when: Spring:;, is -.never. green, 1 /« ...... ■■:■ Can tha heart. answer what these fiddles' mean— J r ' 1 j" • .Can'th^.life hold.such hopelessness as these? 'Love lying low.in the long pleasant grass; .. . , , -r..Touth .with his.eagorface: against :tho sun,- -I .Thej may not guess the hours. when;these shall ■ pas 3» y :v'. • In ivhat, drear com such 'lovely.; dreams are - i , paid, ' ' - ; ' ■ .At «hat grim- cost, .their- flowery - davs -are When .man, .is old and lonely and afraid. --- •• ; .■;> —Helen;EEay. .Whitney in "Gypsy Verses."