VERSES OLD AND NEW.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 645, 23 October 1909, Page 9

VERSES OLD AND NEW.

, « ' WHAT THE DEVIL SUD. tim6a ; -'Ciod ; thp.! Father Good, . • Weary'cf . praises; on a sudden stood sky, v\'} f!or He had heard a'sonnd; »'• little cry,': : v as ,ft 'Whisper-;climbing iuji the. steep. ';. An(l so He.looked-to ■where.tho Earth asleep : -'Hocked with the Moon, Ho saw; tho whirling ■ v;;'sea v::i ■ : :- r V.'. '.y I ■ ' Swing round tho world with, surgent ..energy, • .-/Tangling - tho. Moonlight- its_.;iietl«i' foam, ■ ' - And' ncarer v.'hcro the wliito .'and fretted dome ;.' ()f tho icc-capped polo spun back a lardeil ray Towhistling 'stars,' bright as' a .wizard's day. . . But theso Ho passed .with eyes'; intently.- wide," x; : Till closer .still the mountains Ho espied , vj. ' H : . / -/Sguattrng; V'tremen3ous : . ; i.6n - .the '. broad r back'd Earth; , Each nursing .twenty at a birth. ' .' then minutely,:sousht;"Jlc,: forittovcry d climboti tho.-sii<tit : 'of sp.i'ccv'so l hugely high. ;.^: : HkV;foiind.' it* iri:'a' : cUtcli outside a town, ~ *.)iii/tattered down 1 ,. ; By a dead liahc—sn there was naught to. do, ■ v For what i^.donors .'done,.-and;..back.)Ho drew ' .' gold; : 4s!;H^^V-i^> s^^? : rblled,; V; From whero'llie woman wept,upon/the sod, ..' //;;;thou unhappy.God!", ' '.•'Jomes Stephens; "in" "Insurrections."V\ *'s ' ' , " BRIEF LIFE -..;' of dawn, when, rose-red .'X clouds were flying; ■ ■ .V: ' Vein the. glory of Ms;.coming_ thoj.old moon • drifted aim. jfc ! ' weiit when the evening star : outwatehed . '-V; day's quiet dying;' '7„ . ' ,'' •_ ' : " : path upon the sea made a-white,"straight f road for him. . '■'. • }y. : - Did ;he dreanl a .wistful - dream in some' radiant .. : ,-. 'ji!BCO supernal?. . r v: /' r Ke liear? the * Ktiteiaii;-colli aiid' lose v -"lns way.' v ✓ : .Has-the : touclr'"Oi"earth :cm ;'thft' child made . v.v ... /.-strange/ to-;him^thirißsVeternat.?, : '.}'<■ - Is he heir ,to sorrow-;and'love, being mortal for ;4/ /A;;;:': / , -r ; : : . : ' 4-rSt>pibie : Jewett,'i.in''"Scribner's." '