My Neighbour’s Roses

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 261, 31 July 1937, Page 1 (Supplement)

My Neighbour’s Roses

| The roses red upon my neighbour’s vine | | Are owned by him, but they are also mine. | | His the cost and his the labour, too. | | But mine, as well as his the joy, their loveliness g g to viezv. | | They bloom for me and are for me as fair g | As for the man who gives them all his care. | g Thus lam rich, because a good man grew | | A rose-clad vine for all his neighbour’s view. g | I know from this that others plant for me. = | And what they own, my joy may also be. f | So why be selfish, when so much that’s fine | = Is grown for you upon your neighbours vine? |

—ABRAHAM LINCOLN GRUBER.

“He is dead whose hand is not “Knowledge we ask not —knowopen wide ledge Thou has lent, To help the need of a human But, Lord, the will—there lies brother. our bitter need. He doubles, the length of his life- Q^ ve us to i) Ul ig above the deep lon 9 nde intent Wh^S iV a nothe s r"° rtUnate The deed ’ the deed ” —James Russel Lowell. —The late John Drinkwater.