VERSES OLD AND NEW.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1533, 31 August 1912, Page 9

VERSES OLD AND NEW.

SHEEP. . s When I was once in Baltimore, A man came up to me and cried, "Come,' I have eighteen hundred sheep, And we will sail on Tuesday's tido. • "If you will sail with me, young man, , I'll pay you fifty shillings down; These eighteen hundred sheep 1 tako , From Baltimore to Glasgow town." He paid me fifty shillings down, . I sailed with eighteen hundred sheep; \Ve soon had cleared tho harbour's / mouth, We soon were in the salt sea deep. The first night .we were out at sea Those'.sheep'wero quiet in their mind; ' The second -night they cried with fear— Thoy-Sirielt no pastures in the wind. ' Tlley; sniffed; poor things, for' 1 their ■ .'greeni.fields, ■ They cried so.loud I could not sleep; For.' fiftv ithousand shillings down I "would not sail again, with sheep. -W. H. Davies. THE INN Or DREAMS. Stfeefc Laughter! Sweet Delight! / My heart is like a lighted Inn tliaT waits Your swift Approach ... ■•. and at the open gatesWhite - Beauty stands and listens. like a. ."'flower..'- ■ Bhe has been . dreaming of you in the ' .night. O'fairy Princes; and her eyes are bright. Spur • your. fleet horses, this is Beauty's : hoflr! • Even as when a golden flame upcurled Quivers and flickers out in a dark place, 'So is it.with. the flame. of Beauty's face— That torch! that rose! that wonder •of theJgrorld!-. 'And Love shall weep to see—when ho , Tides by Tears hence (the time shall seem as a ;• ■ bird's _ 'A lonely" Inn beneath a winter sky. Como .now, sweet, friends!,-before the . summer die. Sweet Laughter! Sweet. Delight! . ■ —Olive Custance.