ESSAYS IN VERSE

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 16

ESSAYS IN VERSE

AS I CAME DOWN FROM LEBANON. As I came down from Lebanon, Came winding, wandering slowly down Through mountain passes bleak and brown, i ' The cloudless day was well-nigh, done. The city, like an opal, set In emerald, showed each minarefc Afire with radiant beams of sun, And glistened orange, fig, and lime, Where song-birds made melodious chime, A* I came down from. Lebanon. As I came down from Lebanon, Like lava in the dying glow, Through olive orchards far below I saw the murmuring river run ; And 'neath the wall upon the sand Swart Sheikhs from distant Samarcand, With precious spices they had won,' Lay long and languidly in wait Till they might pass the guarded gate, As I came down from Lebanon. As I came down from Lebanon, I saw strange men from lands afar In mosque and square and gay bazaar — The Magi that the Moslem shun, And grave Effendi from Stamboul Who sherbet sipped in corners cool; And, from the bajconies o'errun ■ With roses, gleamed the eyes of those Who dwell in still seraglios, As I came down from. Lebanon. As I came down from. Lebanon, The flaming flower of daytime died, And Night, arrayed as is a bride Of some great king in garments spun Of purple and the finest gold. Out-bloomed in glories manifold ! Until the moon *bove the dun And darkening desert, void of shade, Shone like a keen Damascus blade, As I came down from Lebanon! — Clinton Scollard. ' MORTALITY. O that the dust had eyes to see the sun, When he reioicos in an April sky ! Believed I this, more tranquil might I lie, Soft in tho dust, when my bright days are done. Or had it ears to hear this wind that passes, Or hands to feel the softness of this rain-~ Truly to lie with, dust were not such pain, Dust softly closed about by roots of grasses. But to forego thii exquisite gift of sense, Laughter in sunlight, love of lovely things ; Have the world's beauty that the full heart sings Scattered in darkness, fathomless, immense — And all the laughter that was I dispersed, Never to be united, nevermore ! — O Earth, reach hands to me; I walk the shore Of some black ocean, pitiless and accursed. Reach hands to me ! lest I be swept away And hear the music crumble down like olay. —Conrad Aiken. Atlantic Monthly. IT WAS OVERLAND THE RED. i "If you're askin' my opinion, well . . ." said Overland the Red, As he rose to do the honours, "I might •ay You are takin' lengthy chances on what's goin' to be said ; It's nothin' new— but put a different way. "So I drink to California, the lored, the last, the best; To her women and her horses and her men; To old El Camino Real windin' gray and lazy to the west, Loafin' up the range and loafin' down again. f 'l drink to California, the land of light I and gold ; To the poppies noddin' happy in tie sun; ' To the snow upon the mountains layin' bright and white and cold; To the old trails and the trails that's just begun. "To the buckaroos a-ridin' out across the old Tejon; To the mules a-jinglin' lively down the grade; To the herder squatted smokin' by his little shack alone; And the mockin' -birds a-dreamin' in the shade. "To the girls that know a saddle from a pancake, on a hoss; To the desert-rat with 'colour' on the brain ; To the Tushin' of the rivers that no man has learned to boss When the_ ridges shed the roarin' winter Tain. "I drink to California, the darling of the West ; To her women and her horses -and her men ; _ A blessin' on those livin' here and God help all the rest; . In concludin' . . . we'll 'stand up and drink again." The Argonaut.

NOT TREATING IT PROPERLY. If you cannot get rid of a colid it is because you are not treating it properly. There is no reason why a 'cold should hang on for weeks or until some serious throat or lung trouble is developed, and it will not if you take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Taken in double doses every hour after the first symptoms appeared, Chamberlain's Cough Remedy would have counteracted the effects cf the cold and restored your system to a healthy condition. Even after the cold has become settled in the system Chamberlain's Cough Remedy will give prompt relief and counteract any tendency of its resulting in pneumonia. — Advt. John Randolph met a personal enemy in the street ono day who refused to give him. half the sidewalk, saying that he never turned out for a rascal. "I do," said Randolph, stepping aside and colite-