IMPOTENCY.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 217, 12 September 1908, Page 6

IMPOTENCY.

There is so much in this" great world, My soul jvrowsi sick with looking at the ways . ■ That wind and knot and part to meet

aga:tn ' ■■ ';.>; And part again and knot and wind and xc.dc.

Children .of fashion; children of the

street?.; ■ Children of fashion hiding hungry hearts., " Children of fashion steeped in ; sordid tho'igMs, Children of fashion crying for the . light, Children of fashion careless of the dark. Children oi gutters starving for kind words, •Children oil gutters steeped in sordid thoughts, Children of gutters crying for the light, of gutters careless of the dark. ,

O God! to see the way this heaving mass

Goes by with smiles and tears (and fewer u'miles!)/" Laughing g,nd cursing (ay, and cursing j more*!} ' : j IVhat can one puny mind do in the whirl? {What use one weakling arm to sway the tide?' ■ ' ■■ Ho! stand with arms rock-ribbed! There's a wave That washes rock to powder. Set your will In purpose fixed, as is the brain that willed Fixed in the skull. The sea flings wide a corpse. —Kate Thomas. The Independent.