VERSES OLD AND NEW.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 805, 30 April 1910, Page 9

VERSES OLD AND NEW.

V.-/;; THE.PtTLNESS OF TIMEi. :: /X - x :> On, a rusty iron throne, ■ '■'' "Past - the furthest star of.space, /-/H-}, ", I saw" Satan sit unknown,'' ,-''-' ■"■• Old and -haggard- was. his face: For .his work was done, and-he ■'■■'■ ■ Rested in. Eternity. -";,'., '.. :.;;;i. , ■",.' And to him from out the sun • Came his Father and'his-Friend, Saying,-"Now the'work is done,' ' .•••' Enmity is at, an end!" ■ And He guided Satan to Paradises that he knew. Gabriel without.-a frown, •;■,.-/-.'.-, / Uriel without'a spear, ■'"'■' Raphael came winging down," ,-•'■'.:. While the .cherubs' chanted clear,'; . "Now-the Morning Star shall climb ■ "Bright asi in-'jthe, olden, time."'.-, T-James Stephens, in the "Nation." :■.'■ ~ .; /RIVALS. ffliA her ehamlo that is wishtful and sad, Wid • her hand, folded close like a wing, TflSJidLj her brae eyes so throubled and wide, She/ waits for the letthcr I bring. $WM a laugh and a toss av the head' . Sha blows me. a kiss from the wall; SSuttbfl letther she holds to her breast, -.And she's weepin.' at nothiV at all! Bind she'll sob and she'll brood oh a scrawl Prom, this habbage gone many a year— fSSThfle she stibs me wid kisses' and A «hm_iles, -', But crowns me not urcuisfc wid a tear! I—Arthur Stringer, in "Thi Bellman.'" >'. . THE FIRST■ FLIGHT, f itPMlo there's one on'his feet with a tale i: • .to'; repeat, and ■another is sampling a r : drink, JSlre eager First Flight /have t. girth to, ' .'■" draw tight Tind a chain'; to let out by ...alink; - ,/'"■'■.. .■■ ..•.-"■ '■'■'■'. :'• SSHuie the■ boisterous .laugh' ini that, circle '/'•■ o- chaff- tie- opening music has ! '■'•'■ droraed, ".?-': "r'.Y: : ]' : Son will hear-' the Fust,-' Flight as they. ■.•■■■ whisper, VThatfs.right!" to the note -of a favourite hound. ■." flV3»en a holloa.i makes ..'sore that his flight ;; is secure and dispels every doubt of .'••'■»■ run,■''•'.-■- -..' "-'., When the-crowd'gallops straight to the /-..- obvious gate. with; the latch that is '•. never, undone,: .- " "•. Sou [ ;will. see the First Flight cram a topper on tight, catch a willing old nag by : the head," (Sad, clapping on; sail at the blackthorn .;■/ or-;.rail,' .take the' line of the robber ; i in red).. , :..'...'1-., ■). ■-.".', ....-:-!;.' -■'■■ ffihey thunder a.way';;.'over.' stubble and 1 -.. clay, over 'roots'/or- the level o' lea, - fEhe .gallant .Firs't''Flight,,that.'are soon v out of sightiwhile; the''slow ones are •'•','eadly . She/crash o| * a rail in the deep of the .':-' vale ::s tothem but a matter of mirth, lAnd : theVavalanche; fall of a hoof-rattled '.'' wall tut. the merriest "music on earth. ffihere are gaps, there/are gates, for the \.' coward who waits; there are roads for , the fellow who fears-; ..,-.'. Sot-to left nor to right go the gallant . First .Flight, save to veer with--the iichase as it veers.- ~ '... ; 3fo field 'has'a'fence so dark4oomingand ".,"'dense,."or a rail so unyielding."and. -, 6tOUt ..■'." ;' Sktt if.- once the First Flight have got -in. it all right you may trust them . £ .'to find a w.ay out. . . :','. .'/ - SNow the men., who ride first may be fre- , !: quently cursed as 'they; press on the ;.; faltering pack, . .'- '..- ; . 'jßni': we're all of us loth to ■ pull, up for j an oath when it comes front a field or J'; two back, '-.-'' . ;> iAid the Master may,blame and the jeal- ; N ons declaim, but the weakest must 'go. '-/.to the wall,. : ■ Mad Wi plain the First Flight have the j- premier right if the hounds may be - .J; hustled 'at- ;,''.,^ixz-3 <S»me, drink with ine, then, to the big- '&: hearted men- who have, pluck to sit • 'down aiid go-straight! ' '.' :■.:•;, {IThether .'farmer ' or squire, : may they '■'3 keep out of wire and be spared a /.lift home on a gate! ■ •-Ell your' glasses to-night to the. gallant '. First Flight!.'.-: Let us wish them''- the' . luck of,the line, 14 : . !ind to-morrow's recall., to the best game of all and, the wind that is better' .than wine!—" Punch."