BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1617, 7 December 1912, Page 9

BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

VERSES OLD AND NEW. ' .'THE.PEDLEK. • v gold that glowß .'-.On-: the.'.whins.-of'.an' Antrim lane. ■.;An';Tiiy.:heart' : is light iriithe Breast o'me heart o'-thi King o' : Spain!. ' \ - From .tho Tveathar at once. arise, ■iiiAh'M 'go' singin',: along the, lanes . .j/i,'Whilst; .the;',wee. lad sings in ;the ekies. • .sV?^V;^W47..inafljrman «;ith '•» elated house,; "T,-/..--"' : -t -.-J 'An', a. slatod. barn; forbye,'. , .An' horses 'an ■ : . cows' kn' • a full meal-chest, ■ . yp ;Has.' no;-suqh''wealth.;as 1./ ' - For there's not a blackbird in the hedge, Nor -a-corncrake in the grass,, -- .But has'a wee crack o' its own for me, That it keeps-till it sees me pass. Bo it's up in the morn, an' off with me— , Who cares,: may-keep-:.the.load . Of a .farmm' "life. .an'>;weans an' wife— I keep to the-fields an' road.; . ••••.'"•• —Eleanor Rogers Cox. YEAES., In jtHe .Night' I' awake,': wheii- the. Moon is dead:'.' ''•'. ' When (the: gloomy streets-are':uritraversed: . When the'.' 1 silencoi'sings,'. and' the . nightlamp's gleam.'' ;• ' Flickers like:breath. of a dyingvdream. I turn onimj: faM, I/oover/my. eorsj:But I ran: not' escape. the-tramp of. the Tears . Th:e:,.'yc[ir9 ,I!vhaTe";knowi, ; tlie . Tears, I 5 must' Know,'; •.' • . . ..- ■"And my tody never may ; In thVNight-1 : awake, 1 when the Moon is dsad. . . V . , ' .'v." My. dreams like the light are.all scattered., I'turn on my face. I .cover my ears, Bnt they march, they march, the llosls of the' Years. Thev march'to the brink .'of a strange ■ bright' sea ;. v., .. .. 'And : fall in the Tides, of Eternity.', . Like a ghost-ridden child I cover my ears,' / But I hear the Death of the strong-shod Years. ' . .. —Fanny Stearns Davis.