EVENING VOLUNTARY.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 57, 12 March 1910, Page 6

EVENING VOLUNTARY.

A wreath of Turkish odour winds • ■' Among "my books in red and gold. IThe philosophic spirit finds Peace through the pain of growing old.

The warm blue perfume melts and f ftdss Around the glowing shaft of gas; 'And every nervelet that upbraids Takes <Wort from the pangs that pass. Purer the folding air repeats The cones ofc smofc/that upwara • Andiuckl grows the brain that beats - Less turbid with the pulse of hope. "ffihe sp^als melt in fragrant mist .. And through that *ust. my books ■; shine clear; , , ( T.ike life in sobered amethyst, The twilights of the fainting year. tThrob, ending bells of odorous; light; ■Youth spurns me from its bnlliant But Ige 'has yet its Prime ¥^' ht For thought 'survives and thougnt is best" —Edmund Gosse,