BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 550, 3 July 1909, Page 12

BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

I —♦___ I j " VERSUS NBW AND OLD. [ ( . • CLOUDS / §b Fincy loves to play with clond9 f That hour by kova: can change Heavens face; I Bbr I am sure o( my delight, 1 'In preen or Btouj phce {Sometimes they on tall mountains pile i K Mountains ot silver, twice ns hi<;h, Ikad than \hm brcai, and jw lilo roofcs All orer tno wido sky. i \ JUd then I see flocks very fair; . And sometrmes, near their ijodiGi white, j lAro email black lambs, that soon -vyill grow t And hide their mothers quite Bamotimee, hk« little fishes, they ; i Axe oil ono size, and ono great shoal, Sometimes' they lilo big 1 Acroes the blue sky roll i Bamehmte I mo small cloudlets ton / Big, heavy clouds noro<ts those skies— c, tUhs hßio enU that carrv off i Great moths ten "times 'their size 1 Eojnebmes I see at room bright clouds '. Thai; etand qo stil] 1 they make'mo staro, \ )R K*smß as they had trained a]l night ' j ' . ' Tq make nq, motion there. j WHliam H. Danes, in "The Nation." 1" % ( TRANSFORMATION. {fppn ti* Persian of Jalalnddin Bruni.) f tf&r u a atone, eo Eastern legends inn, 1; Wooed patience of tljo son ,; 1 Piarpng its dense opacity, has r> jfonm'a mere pebble to a pr&Jous stone,' > Its flintnwsp iro.ponneab.lp and erase t ETnrß*4 oxysja|ltte. tq let thq sunlight pass, f Eo hearts long years Impassive and opaque fHQbom terror? could 'not crush nor sorrow ! HTHpTpg si lass to Ipjqe refining ray i ' Bheon, 'dtdlgKnrn clear, from earthly grown ) v tq QajL tl» light 'hat «.»& them , 1 —Claw} Field, in the "Spectator," ¥33b WgSAN 9? TI#B. > j&r?tfcs; Ocean of Tims, vhero the merry wves [ rIT ~teamg ! 1 1 IJfo elver bdla swmg to the, joy bf-their * ' f Sin walk' on the shore of a eea I am aropang, (' 1 I Jrayet pur handq o'er the Ocean of \ Prohfld d my heart, when ypur blue eyea are .Afire, with the sunrise they dauntlessly meet, 00 they op |te l *hite ehoals. of the Morfcaidens. - swimming ' ' iWith the wealth of tb*)i waters to lay at \ year feet? ' 1 JBto» g»Ueca!| of gold—end the eajlore a|l the hawsers of evlki are made fast to the Qoay., ' ■ ' (And the people Bails fall of the Argosy bring--1 lßg * I Xhft gifts of the Fair; foli of the e^. BRb walk by the, Oceans-forget as, we. wandor Tha roar pf ,tfyi tempfflt-fhe. shinud of the , pjght [TChcra ay ship fights her way through thq mists oror .yonder s / (With the, peaks of the Shadowy Kicgdom in I Bght. " ' , " ' ' ; 1 ,Stai look tan the shore for the ipiwa ijerC" after ' 1 . >" 1 " * > on the scarlet and go}d' o( tho, WKCt, !Ard the iaoe of the sea is all with '» ' langhter , ■> By a rpee4aden breexe from the Isle; «f the - Si* far Qfpr/there wherei the wind Tages mi the splendour of heavep W'dusfc sfith r ~ its pall " " lijea the' Quest of onr striving—the gosj of y the ages, ''»* " -J r ' ' The Country of Silence that waits for us all , [Shall we, find jand pfj ; %t pf > ( As men .wako from dreams to a 1 world that they £now, 1 Xhat the Spring lof our Spring is alive m its mcAdflffß," f-~ — - fie shoro is a shore which we loved long ago?] > The. wave has.no terror—the sky h.fs no warn; 1 ing Ap you gaze from tho bgaoh , 915 1 thq blue of ' the bay, < • ' And'through the grey calm comes tho rose of tho morning, The sheen of the eunnse that heralds the • day. 1 "" ' But when it :s time for thy voyage, my daughter, t ' , And th§ after-glow crimsons, the shadows grow long, " . v May bravo, loving arms lift the oars through. r ' ' the water, > And thy Pilot boiHe of oar Tennyson's song 1 —'[Westminster (Jwo'ttfl."