BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 514, 22 May 1909, Page 9

BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

VERSES OLD AND NEW. GOLD AND PEARL AND AMETHYST. .; . ; ;; - (Musical lUghtsltesorred.) -y .; : . .'Asleep nijoii: tho grass.sho lay. v > Ixive*piling 6tooped,:her eyes ho kissed' ;. ' i ' Withhold and' pearl atwl amethyst. j f v r : . . Bho'wOlta-'Snd fled; in-sweet dismay, " : :'.She (-vanished in; tlic Vmornnig' mist, ; But lettjbeMndOier bright array,/': • : Withguldand pearl and: amethyst- , , ..- , /; ,And ;I tliorG* it 'lics t"his very day; - GoM'gazS upon.it if,ye list: ■...,.\,...''•;.. :,^, ',''Cr6ta3es'in;.tho thoy say— . ; . -.;' ji l l',...'';N6? gpld and; -pearl and . amethyst'. • "- :. '--Helen TaylorV in'the "Westminster ' v i,«s;; ■■b., , THE BALLAD OP O'PAREEIX. I All "that OTarroll had iV'slipping from lift .hands—_ : Tiie' home-.tlist ( ivW' ins ■ The tilled and the, gratis lands, i '"£The bed: where' he';used'to; sleep, And tho roof Over Ins head; ■r. Tlio heaven-is now-,his-roof, ; ... . : ■■ ■•'; And the road his bed.. ■'. . .' : .■ ' J. ; ■ - .-.y".-" \v Onco QTarrcll had wealth, ' Gold enough and to epaio;, ■'^-'"w-.■ His were tho fattest sheep r,' y;; <■■■■ ■ That camo to tho Callow farrj ■ His was tho finest houio ~ ■ You'd see in a three days ndo; ; ' . And 'hia : was the hardest heart . '.. ' In all tho/countryMdo."-;' '•••:• \ To OTarrell's door one day : A beggar woman came, . ■ - ; : Asking abit: and a sup-.., , In God's holy Namo. Sho had left tho iback of the lulls . Before the dawn of day : . - ■ ■ V 'With.never.a"orust.of bread,;, ;v ■ -> • To help her on her way. OTarrell looted at her dress P., : And saw it was poor and wqrn; •; .*; OTarrell looked at hep feet • >. : . And saw they wore-sore'and torn; . ' OTarrell looked at lier faee. " ; . : And saw it was.old.and gray: . . ; ■ ''You may go :.to the devil,','.he- said, . t';'■ ,'l'or all you'll get: here this-day." •" - When :tho' woman heard those words,, ii She turned irom■:OTarrell's door She said/ 'Tou liave cursod ma now. . ;. "Becauso I am old and poor: . "That you may bo. poor and old ; ; -fromJ placej; -?'";' ■ :: "And that folk mnv , unvo- yom away : i "And slam- their doors ,iu your face." • OTarrell "has had no peace • Prom that day, day or night; kV. '•. ■ His .wealth lias vanished away - >'l : '■ Liko mist in the. sun's light; .„ ' r Before the lambing-time _.' -v,v.^:.. ;' ' ;Ho has lost tho half of his sheep; • < • His crops havo grown black, in the field, ; Before it was time to reap. • - . - All that OTarrell had. ~ ; • Is slipping from his '. "' • ViThe/iomeV that;was' his;of old,' r ; ' i . '■ ■ . The tilled, and the grass lands,- ~ ', ..The bed whoro.ho used to sleep, . i : ,V. And : .the roof over .his head;:. : May the; heaven he his only roof - '. •. And -tho : road.liis. bed!; .. .. ■ C.,.H.. Bewloy, in the "Nation." A TWILIGHT COLLOQUY. ' So fallen, comfortless we lie,■ : '-.WHile '.lioufs"; come,' while houra.'go, , Till far off, like a . As soft, as low. . : ■ A whisper trickles to our eara, , ■. ■ i And ;.down: a .dart.unfriondly sky, / ■■■■..■■ . One little flickering . gleam-appears And Hope glides by. . . ' ' Not glory-Awned as once ier brows, i . . Not chaunting now loud songs of spring, 'i' C SI O HfU but as: amid gre)'. boughs < .. : Brown robins sing. . Yet holds her friendly lands,- ' , And we? Ah God; we grasp them then! ; —Sole rhelperSbf;,unhappy/lands, '"..v.;: .:; . .' •: • And friendless men— ■ Whose eyes are full of kindly dreams, Wbosa smile holds heaven itself m store, ' ' ; ? .v : . ; . Whose light .'cross bitter currents gleams , On a still shore. ' Hope—solace of ia: desperate Past—:, • : • • ■ .:> , Hope—landmark m a maddening sea— :■■■'■ Of Love's , whole starry brood the last, All livo m thee I ./ ■ ■ . No offspring of a frozen .creed,. '. Of .mim'e .-.warm hidden heart the. child, '.(4 K ; i : ' From Life's hard bond cf.oofitom freed,-. {■ Still young, still wild. ■. —Emily Lawless; mi''The. Point of View."