OLD HOUSES.
Old houses, wherein folks hare lived and died, Have personalities as much their own As those who 'neath their shelte'ring roofs have grown. Some houses offer welcome warm and wide, And some apart in proud aloofness bide; But all old houses have strange secrets kept. In walls that with their owners laughed and wept. —Charlotte Becker, in the '“New Outlook.” * * ♦ ♦ BRANCHES. We cut you into kindling, We bind you up in brooms— You who have fenced the whirlwind And tossed your leafy plumes. A tree must know compassion In every outstrtehed arm To welcome little children And keep them safe from arm. Some of vim are knotted From wrestling with the wind, Others in sheltered places Some of you are knotted From wrestling with tb» wind, —» Otbsn ta sheltered places
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 221, 4 September 1926, Page 9
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132OLD HOUSES. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 221, 4 September 1926, Page 9
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