PASSING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 62, 13 November 1880, Page 3 (Supplement)

PASSING.

"What ship is this ooineß Bailing Across the bttbottbM,;,'\ - /' So etrange,Sei hall familiar, •, • • With treaßalesftom afar] '. , Oh, oon»ades, shout, good bells ring out, . \ Peal loud your merry din 1 ."."",, , Ob, joy lAt iafct across the bay , - My ship oomes sailing in t" ' . Men Btdd in tow vUne»i »• It is'the paßßing bell. ■ At last bis toil is ended." J They prayed, " God rest him weu '. - "Ho, <»ptain, my^captain I . . ;j What store have yoy, on .board?' . . ; richer,: . ' , Than gems or golden hoard; „_ '. '; . The broken promise welded firm, . „. „ The long forgotten' kiss ; , The love moreworth than all on earthi All joys life seemed to miss/.' ... The watohers sighed softly, «' lfc is the^death change, . -- •: What vision bleat baa given > ThaVraptere deep.and straage?". "Oh, captain, deft baptain, • ■■./•■ What formß are those"! Bee > -; '•" ,Oa deck there besides-yon? ' : They imile and beckon me, ■ ■ - • ■ And Bof t voices call me : ■- L <■ ' : Those voiceß sure I know !" ' - ' " All friondg are here that you held dear la the gweetlong •6°^" „ "Tneiieatti 6ma«,"«iiey nwuriaar«a, ♦* It i» bo passing sweet < -- '-•• • We Bowoe have heart to hide it • ' Beneath the winding-Bheet.' - ' <■; "Oh, captain; I know .youT \ ■ ' ' • - Areyou not Christ the' Lord.?,-, • ' •-' With light heart and joyous-; '. - ■ " I hasten now onboard." •' ' Set Bail, set' sail; bef orb the gale, Our trip will soon be o'er : To-night we'll oast our'anohor fast . ; Beside the heavenly shore," „ "."' „ . 1 Men sighed,'/' Lay him .gently. ; Ben«atti the heavy sod "• ',/,.- The soul itax beyonsl the bai: ■ / Went sailing phtp s

A CuMoxrs Phinohinpn.— The , Plaint dealer, of East Kent; Ontario, states, that a carious and inexplicable-phenomenon' was, witnessed recently) by Mr. David Muckle and Mr. W.E; McKay r two citwens of that y town. The gentlemen were in -a field-oa e» farm of thtf. former,- when they Heardi a.' sudden loud 'report, like that of a cannon. They turned jost in time to see a olpud of stones flying, upward from a spot in -tba field. Surprised beyond measnte' they examined the spot, which was circular and about 16 feet; acrpßS, but there was no sign of an eruption nor anythmg to iridicate the fall of aT heavy ' b!ody there. . -The ground was simply swept' clean. .They, are quite certain.that itwaa.riot caused. by> meteorite, " an w ~ernptidiu b]t 4 the rt earth, or- -a> whirlwind.