VERSES OLD AND NEW.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 633, 9 October 1909, Page 9

VERSES OLD AND NEW.

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: ■ Bid :us l-uni freei with /life in every limbi;.' •• hear' the . last .'red. ' •-..i.-lrbsb'- v :;-Gossiping.6ver:Heaven'3greygarden-lwall : ?. :. /..—Alfred vNoyes,' in tHe "Wcstmin£tert: 'd